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JOSEPHINE  ADAMS  RATHBONE,  Editor 


VIEWPOINTS  IN  ESSAYS 

AN  •    ARRANGEMENT  •  OF  •    BOOKS 
ACCORDING  •  TO  •  THEIR 
ESSENTIAL • INTEREST 


BY 


MARION  HORTON 

Principal,   Library    School 
Los  Angeles  Public  Library 


CHICAGO 

AMERICAN  LIBRARY  ASSOCIATION 
1922 


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THE  VIEWPOINT  SERIES 

-ESSAYS   IN  INTERPRETIVE  BIBLIOGRAPHY, 
•   EDITJSD^   B^   JOSEPHINE  ADAMS  RATHBONE, 
•:  '.Vjete-TjXB.EdTQfR/PRATT  INSTITUTE  LIBRARY  SCHOOL 


Viewpoints  in  Travel,  by  Josephine  Adams  Rathbone. 


Viewpoints  in  Biography,  by  Katherine  Tappert, 
Librarian,  New  York  Evening  Post. 


Viewpoints  in  Essays,  by  Marion  Horton, 
Principal  of  the  Los  Angeles  Library  School. 


PREFACE 

"An  essayist  is  not  a  mighty  traveler.  He  does  not  run  to 
grapple  with  a  roaring  lion.  He  desires  neither  typhoon  nor 
tempest.  He  is  content  in  his  harbor  to  listen  to  the  storm  upon 
the  rocks  if  now  and  then  by  lucky  chance,  he  can  shelter  some- 
one from  the  wreck.  His  hands  are  not  red  with  revolt  against 
the  worlds  He  has  glanced  upon  the  thoughts  of  many  men; 
and  as  opposite  philosophies  point  upon  the  truth,  he  is-rtiodest 
with  his  own  and  tolerant  of  the  opinion  of  others.  He  looks  at 
^  the  stars  and,  knowing  in  what  a  dim  immensity  we  travel,  he 
writes  of  little  things  beyond  dispute.  There  are  enough  to  weep 
upon  the  shadows;  he,  like  the  dial,  marks  the  light.  The  small 
clatter  of  the  city  beneath  his  window,  the  cry  of  peddlers,  chil- 
dren chalking  their  games  upon  the  pavement,  laundry  dancing 
on  the  roofs  and  smoke  in  the  winter's  wind — these  are  the  things 
he  weaves  into  the  fabric  of  his  thoughts.  Or  sheep  upon  the 
hillside — if  his  window  is  so  lucky — or  a  sunny  meadow,  is  a 
profitable  speculation.  An  essay,  therefore,  cannot  be  writ  hur- 
riedly upon  the  knee." 

So  writes  Mr.  Brooks  in  his  delectable  Hints  to  pilgrims,  and 
if  an  essayist  keeps  a  note-book,  as  he  avers,  still  more  does  the 
bibliographer  of  essayists.  One  notes  the  wise,  quaint  fancies, 
and  shares  them  with  gentle  readers  of  like  temper.  Regretfully, 
certain  choice  volimies  are  omitted,  out  of  print,  and  tantalizing 
to  the  eager  buyer. 

The  essays  listed  here  have  been  collected  from  the  shelves 
of  libraries  and  from  the  familiar  sources:  A.  L.  A.  Catalog, 
and  Supplement,  the  Booklist,  Book  Review  Digest,  Best  Books, 
Open  Shelf,  the  Pittsburgh  Catalog  and  Monthly  Bulletin.  The 
notes  have  been  written  from  the  books  themselves  unless  cita- 
tion is  given  to  some  authority.  Part  of  the  preliminary  collec- 
tion of  titles  was  done  by  the  Class  of  1920  in  the  Los  Angeles 
Library  School,  to  whom  grateful  thanks  is  given,  as  well  as  to 
Helen  E.  Haines  who  read  the  manuscript  critically,  and  to 
Elizabeth  Owen  Williams  who  checked  all  the  titles  so  that 
only  those  books  in  print  would  be  included,  and  who  helped  in 
the  compilation  in  many  other  ways. 

M.  H. 


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CONTENTS 


Page 

Observations  and  Reflections 7 

The  Harvest  of  a  Quiet  Eye 11 

Bed  Books 13 

Curry  and  Caviare 14 

Masculine  Attitudes 15 

The  Eternal  Feminine 16 

Domesticities 16 

Chiefly  of  Human  Interest 17 

Youth  and  Age 19 

Hobbies 20 

Out  of  Doors , 22 

Birds  and  Blossoming 24 

Gardens 25 

The  Footpath  Way 26 

Lands  and  Peoples 28 

American  Mind  and  Manners 30 

Schools  and  Society 32 

Art 34 

Music 36 

Eternal  Verities 37 

Everyday  Ethics 38 

Writing 39 

Reading 40 

The  Bookshelf 41 

Poetry 51 

Collections  of  Essays 54 


VIEWPOINTS  IN  ESSAYS 


OBSERVATIONS  AND  REFLECTIONS 

How  they  touch  the  matters  of  daily  life  with  radiance,  and 
hang  a  veil  of  romance  over  experience  and  send  you  away  happy ! 
— Lucas.    Loiterer's  harvest. 

Aldrich,  Thomas  Bailey.     Ponkapog  papers.     Houghton,   1903. 

A  delectable  medley  of  notes  and  essays;  reminiscences  of  travel,  anecdotes 
of  a  life  rich  in  literary  associations,  memoranda  for  unwritten  stories,  bits 
of  character-study,  paragraphs  of  criticism,  with  here  and  there  a  swift  mor- 
dant thrust  at  the  Philistines,  or  a  touch  of  pure  light  comedy. — The  Atlantic, 
1903. 

Ayscough,  John.    Levia  pondera.    Longmans,  1913. 

Informal  papers,  classified  as  A  novelist's  sermons  and  Everyday  papers, 
written  with  humor  and  grace. 

Bacon,  Francis.    Essays;  ed.  by  Mary  Augusta  Scott.     Scribner, 
1908.     (Modem  student's  library). 

Wise,  terse  comments  on  truth,  death,  nobility,  wisdom,  friendship,  gardens, 
studies  and  other  serious  subjects. 

"Certain  brief  notes  set  down  rather  significantly  than  curiously;  not 
vulgar  but  of  a  kind  whereof  men  shall  find  much  in  experience  and  little 
in  books." 

Belloc,  Hilaire.    On  anything.    Button,  1910. 

In  Belloc  we  find  the  aerfect  union  of  French  and  English  minds 
It  is  in  his  essays,  theWiousand  little  inquirendoes  into  the  nature  qf  any- 
thing, everything  or  nothing,  that  one  comes  closest  to  the  real  maiO  His 
prose  leaps  in  sparks  from  the  pen.     It  is  whimsical,  tender,  biting,  garrulous. 
It  is  famiUar  and  unfettered  as  open-air  talk. — Morley.     Shandygaff. 

On  nothing.     Methuen,  1913. 

The  pleasure  of  taking  up  one's  pen  is  first  discussed,  and  with  unfailing 
zest  the  writer  finds  delight  in  thousands  of  other  things  from  conversation 
in  trains  to  coming  to  an  end.  His  other  books  of  essays  First  and  last 
(1911)  On  everything  (1910)  This  and  that  and  the  other  (1921)  have  the 
same  graceful  style  and  joyous  appreciation  of  life. 

Bennett,  Arnold.    Things  that  have  interested  me.    Doran,  1921. 

Short  articles  and  paragraphs  on  many  different  subjects,  recorded  by  an 
admirable  observer  and  skillful  writer. 

Benson,  Arthur  Christopher.     The  silent  isle.     Putnam,   1910. 

Quiet,  introspective  essays  giving  personal  impressions  of  books,  men 
and  EngUsh  landscape. — Best  Books,  1910. 

Brooks,  Charles  S.    Chimney  pot  papers.    Yale  university  press, 
1919. 

Papers  on  livelihoods,  spending  a  holiday,  turning  into  forty,  boots  for 
runaways  and  a  dozen  other  engaging  subjects  "carrying  on  the  tradition 
of  Lamb  and  Hazlitt  with  that  studied  artlessness  whose  other  name  is  charm." 


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Brooks,  Charles  S.    Hints  to  pilgrims.    Yale  university  press,  1921. 

Delightful  reflections,  seasoned  with  a  mellow  humor,  on  After  dinner 
pleasantries,  Finding  a  plot.  In  praise  of  a  lawn-mower,  Autumn  days. 

Broun,  Heywood  Campbell.    Seeing  things  at  night.    Harcourt, 
1921. 

It  has  Broun,  himself,  as  its  unity — for  all  the  books  and  plays  and  people 
that  pass  through  his  fey  mind  come  out  recognizably  colored  and  encrusted. 
And  it  has  another  unity — the  unity  of  an  unflagging  hostility  against  all 
bigotry  the  world  around. — Bookman,  iq2I. 

Butler,  Samuel.     The  humour  of  Homer  and  other  essays,  ed. 
by  R.  A.  Streatfield.     Kennerley,  1914. 

The  first  essay  shows  the  human  side  of  the  Greek  classics,  and  the  others 
are  equally  alive:  The  aunt,  the  nieces  and  doge ;  A  mediaeval  girl  school. 
Thought  and  language. 

Chesterton,  Gilbert  Keith.    Alarms  and  discursions.    Dodd,  1910. 

Epigrammatic  and  paradoxical,  serious  and  frivolous  .  .  .  consist- 
ing of  40  short  essays  on  such  a  variety  of  subjects  as  dukes,  cheese,  the 
sentimentalist,  the  anarchist,  and  country  life. — Best  Books,  igio. 

The  uses  of  diversity.     Methuen,  1920. 

Jovial  essays  on  subjects  as  diverse  as  the  domesticity  of  detectives  and 
pigs  as  pets.  In  the  paper  on  monsters  he  finds  it  hopeful  that  while  lep- 
rechauns have  repeatedly  been  seen  by  children,  by  fishermen,  by  farmers, 
even  perhaps  by  postmen,  now  at  last  one  has  been  seen  by  a  policeman. 

Conrad,  Joseph.     Notes  on  life  and  letters.     Doubleday,  1921. 

On  books  and  authors,  the  sea  and  many  other  topics,  revealing  the  writer 
in  a  ruminating,  conversational  mood. 

Crothers,  Samuel  McChord.     The  pardoner's  wallet.    Houghton, 
1905. 

Whimsical  observations  on  unseasonable  virtues,  an  hour  with  our  prej- 
udices, how  to  know  the  fallacies  and  other  aspects  of  life,  recorded  with 
delicate  humor. 

De  Quincey,  Thomas.  EngHsh  mail-coach.  Button,  1913.  (Every 
man's  library). 

These  essays  on  the  mail  coach,  then  the  marvel  of  rapidity  of  travel, 
offer  in  miniature,  the  type  of  De  Quincey's  style,  with  its  sonorous  poetic 
cadences,  its  quaint  colloquial  familiarities,  with  his  insatiable  intellectual 
curiosity  and  his  digressiveness. — Lang.     History  of  English  literature. 

Flandrau,  Charles  Macomb.    Prejudices.    Appleton,  1910. 

Fourteen  piquant  essays  revealing  with  engaging  frankness  the  author's 
reflections  on  dogs,  wanderlust,  parents  and  children,  fellow  passengers, 
Ann  Veronica  and  holidays. 

Gardiner,  Alfred  George.    Windfalls,  by  Alpha  of  the  Plough. 
Button,  1921. 

In  these  essays  the  ways  of  nature  and  the  habits  of  men  are  characterized 
in  a  manner  that  mingles  a  happy  wisdom  and  a  gentle  humor  with  a  sturdy 
and  practical  common  sense. — Boston  Transcript,  igzi. 


VIEWPOINTS  IN  ESSAYS  9 

Hazlitt,  William.    Table  talk;  or,  Original  essays.    Dutton,  1908. 

(Everyman's  library). 
On  people  with  one  idea,  living  to  one's  self,  will-making,  paradox  and 
common  sense,  and  other  subjects,  all  treated  in  what  Hazlitt  called  "the 
genuine  master  spirit  of  the  prose  writer,  viz,  the  tone  of  hvely  sensible  con- 
versation." 

Hewlett,  Maurice  Henry.     In  a  green  shade;  a  country  com- 
mentary.    Bell,  1921. 
Some  of  the  essays  are  Round  about  a  preface,  Change  and  the  peasantry. 
Poetry  and  the  mode,  Flower  of  the  field,  Noctes  ambrosianae,  A  commentary 
upon  Butler. 

Humphrey,  Zephine.  The  edge  of  the  woods.  Revell,  1914. 
"There  is  one  thing  better  than  all  the'holidays,  all  the  high  feasts  in  the 
calendar;  and  that  is  Everyday.  This  is  not  intended  to  be  a  pious  assertion, 
introducing  a  sermon  on  the  beauty  of  the  commonplace;  it  springs  from 
a  conviction  that  Everyday  is  the  natural  territory  of  high  romance." — p.  161. 

Huneker,  James  Gibbon.    Variations.    Scribner,  1921. 

A  collection  of  essays  on  many  subjects  colored  by  the  vivid  personality 
of  the  critic  and  revealing  the  diversity  of  his  interests. 

Hunt,  Leigh.    The  wishing-cap  papers.    Scribner,  1894. 

Delightful  familiar  essays  on  such  subjects  as  A  walk  in  Co  vent  garden. 
Rainy-day  poetry.  Love  and  the  country. 

"At  Maiano  I  wrote  the  articles  which  appeared  in  the  Examiner,  under 
the  title  of  The  wishing-cap.  The  title  was  very  genuine.  When  I  put  on 
my  cap,  and  pitched  myself  into  the  thick  of  Covent  Garden  the  pleasure 
I  received  was  so  vivid,  I  turned  the  comer  of  the  street  so  much  in  the  or- 
dinary course  of  things,  and  was  so  tangibly  present  to  the  pavement,  the 
shop  windows,  the  people  and  a  thousand  agreeable  recollections  which 
looked  me  naturally  in  the  face,  that  sometimes  when  I  walk  there  now,  the 
impression  seems  hardly  more  real." 

Jenkins,  MacGregor.    Literature  with  a  large  L.    Houghton,  1919. 

The  title  essay  is  a  plea  for  a  closer  human  companionship  with  books; 
the  accompanying  paper  called  Fellow  travelers  urges  a  similar  openness 
of  heart  in  the  contact  of  one  person  with  others. — Nation,  1920. 

Kilmer,  Joyce.    The  circus  and  other  essays.    Doran,  1921. 

Entertaining  papers  about  the  circus,  John  Bunny,  Lafcadio  Heam,  Ernest 
Dowson,  and  aspects  of  life  in  New  York. 

Kirkland,  Winifred.    The  view  vertical  and  other  essays.    Hough- 
ton, 1920. 

Whimsical  and  illuminating  reflections  on  life  as  a  happy  woman  sees  it, 
including  An  argument  for  absence,  On  being  and  letting  alone.  Family 
phrases,  In  defense  of  worry.  The  man  in  the  dictionary.  Poetry  by  the  penny- 
worth. 

Lamb,  Charles.     Essays  of  Elia.     Dutton,   1915.     (Wayfarer's 
library) . 

I  love  Charles  Lamb  and  his  writings  so  much  that  I  think  every  one  else 
ought  to  love  them.  There  is  not  great  weight  in  those  essays  of  his;  you 
cannot  learn  from  them  what  the  capital  of  Hindustan  is,  or  what  Buddhism 
is,  nor  the  date  of  the   capture  of  Constantinople.     Measured  by  the  dry- 


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as-dust  standard,  and  there  is  scarce  more  in  them  than  a  field  of  daisies, 
over  which  the  sunshine  and  the  summer  breezes  are  at  play.  But  what  a 
delicacy  there  is!  What  a  tender  humor;  what  gentle  and  regaling  lapses 
of  quaint  thought ;  that  beguiles  and  invites  and  is  soothing  and  never  wearies. 
— Mitchell.     English  lands. 

Leith,  W.  Compton.     Sirenica.     Lane,  1913. 

"The  Sirens  mean  Romance.  They  awaken  that  restive  yearning  within 
the  heart  which  practical  wisdom  strives  to  quell.  They  disenchant  from 
the  governable  life  with  its  gregarious  ease  and  communicable  satisfactions. 
They  incite  to  the  sole  adventure;  they  promise  a  reward  remote  from  the 
smiling  continent  of  pleasures,  isled  in  pain,  attained  and  lost  alone.  They 
promise  joy,  the  stress  and  puissance,  which  carries  the  soul  out  to  the  great 
verges,  and  holds  her  in  ecstasies  of  incredible  life." 

Lucas,  Edward  Verrall.     Adventures  and  enthusiasms.     Doran, 
1920. 

Happy  little  papers,  most  of  them  about  London,  others  describing  whim- 
sical aspects  of  life,  such  as  the  essential  comicality  of  aunts. 

Cloud  and  silver.    Doran,  1915. 

An  admirable  collection  of  war  sketches,  essays  on  a  variety  of  subjects, 
and  fables  of  a  mellow  charm. — Best  Books,  igi6. 

Twixt  eagle  and  dove.     Methuen,  1918. 

Delightful  reading,  revealing  all  the  author's  wonted  charm  and  versatility. 
Some  of  the  most  pleasing  are  interesting  anecdotes  of  Hans  Andersen,  an 
appreciation  of  Poulbot,  the  inimitable  cartoonist  of  Parisian  street  urchins 
playing  war,  some  queer  soldier  mascots. — Open  Shelf,  igi8. 

Masson,  Thomas  Lansuig.     Well,  why  not?     Doubleday,  1921. 

Some  of  the  short  vivacious  essays  are:  The  care  and  treatment  of  golfers, 
A  first  night — with  a  dog,  Best  sellers  I  have  never  read.  Among  the  poverty- 
stricken  millionaires.  How  to  know  the  wild  psychologists.  An  afternoon  at 
the  current  events  club,  Well,  why  is  Wall  Street? 

Milne,  Alan  Alexander.     Not  that  it  matters.     Button,     1920. 
Charming  little  essays  by  the  former  assistant  editor  of  Punch,  on  such 
subjects  as  goldfish,  games,  books,  thermometers,  snobbery,  and  week-end 
visits. 

Money-Coutts,  Francis  Burdett.     Ventures  in  thought.     Lane, 
1915. 

A  series  of  fifty-three  essays  of  Baconian  brevity  and  varied  subject  matter. 

Montaigne,  Michel  Eyquem  de.  Essays;  tr.  by  John  Florio; 
with  introduction  by  R.  Walker.  Button,  1910.  3v. 
Entertaining  soliloquy  on  every  random  topic  that  comes  into  his  head; 
treating  everything  without  ceremony,  yet  with  masculine  sense.  There 
have  been  men  with  deeper  insight;  but  one  would  say,  never  a  man  with 
such  abundance  of  thoughts;  he  is  never  dull,  never  insincere,  and  has  the 
genius  to  make  the  reader  care  for  all  he  cares  for, — Emerson.  Representative 
men. 

Repplier,  Agnes.     Compromises.     Houghton,  1904. 

The  luxury  of  conversation.  The  gayety  of  life.  Marriage  in  fiction.  Our 
belief  in  books  and  other  topics  are  discussed  with  felicity  of  phrasing  and 
keen  analysis. 


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Repplier,  Agnes.    Points  of  friction.     Houghton,  1920. 

Clever  and  effective  presentation  of  an  intellectual  conservative's  attitude 
toward  history,  spiritualism,  temperament  and  morals. 

Shorter,  Mrs.  Dora  (Sigerson).    A  dull  day  in  London,  and  other 

sketches,   with   an  introductory  note  by   Thomas   Hardy. 

Nash,  1920. 

Other  sketches:  The  last  of  summer.     Not  without  honour.     The  child. 

The  fear  of  the  sheep.     The  skylark.     The  gift  of  the  white  rose.     The 

footfall.     Contentment.     Christmas  tide.     The  passing  of  the  fairies. 

Sill,  Edward  Rowland.     Prose.    Houghton,  1900. 

Sparkling  papers  full  of  quaint  ideas  droUy  expressed  on  all  kinds  of  sub- 
jects, from  the  Clang  tints  in  words  to  the  Left-over  expression  of  countenance. 

v/  Smith,  Alexander.    Dreamthorp;  a  book  of  essays  written  in  the 
country.     Page,   1907. 
Pleasant  reflections  on  the  writing  of  essays,  a  lark's  flight,  books  and  gar- 
dens and  other  aspects  of  life  in  an  English  village. 

Smith,  Logan  Pearsall.    Trivia.    Doubleday,  1918. 

I^     If  your  mind  needs  phosphorus,  try    Trivia.  —  Roger  Mifflin  in   The 
:  haunted  book  shop. 

j  Stewart,  Charles  David.     Essays  on  the  spot.     Houghton,  1910. 
Six  sprightly  and  original  papers,  ranging  in  subject  from  the  biography 
of  a  Texas  steer  and  the  population  of  Wisconsin  to  the  study  of  grammar. 
— Best  Books,  igio. 

^Sturgis,  Esther  Mary   (Ogden).       (Mrs.   R.   Clipston  Sturgis). 
Personal  prejudices.     Houghton,  1920. 
Refreshing  informal  essays,  stating  the  candid  convictions  of  the  author 
in  regard  to  husbands,  house  keeping,   gardening,  old  books  and  woman 
suffrage. 

Symonds,  John  Addington.    In  the  key  of  blue  and  other  prose 
essays.     3d  ed.     Macmillan,  1918. 
Gracefully  written  essays  representing  the  different  fields  in  which  the 
author  was  interested — Greek  and  renaissance  literature,  travel,  criticism 
and  verse. 

Wilson,  John.  Noctes  ambrosianae,  by  Christopher  North. 
Routledge,  n.  d. 
An  essayist  and  causeur  of  commanding  and  singularly  varied  powers, 
whose  Noctes  ambrosianae  preserve  for  those  who  have  attained  the  proper 
point  of  view,  the  original  charm  of  its  gaiety,  wit,  and  dramatic  humor, 
its  criticism,  and  its  occasional  passages  of  admirably  eloquent  prose. — 
Traill.     Social  England. 

THE  HARVEST  OF  A  QUIET  EYE 

Benson,  Arthur  Christopher.    From  a  college  window.    Putnam, 
1906. 
Papers  on  conversation,   education,  habits  and  other  famiUar  subjects, 
gracefully  written  with  the  detached  feeling  of  an  Eton  don,  temperamentally 
a  recluse. 


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Browne,  Sir  Thomas.     Religio  medici,  ed.  by  W.  A.  Greenhill. 
Macmillan,  1898. 

Eloquent  and  singularly  beautiful  defence  of  a  scientific  yet  reverent 
attitude  toward  religion. 

Galsworthy,  John.     The  inn  of  tranquillity;  studies  and  essays. 
Scribner,  1912. 

Reflections  of  a  lover  of  beauty,  musing  on  the  mystery  of  nature  and  the 
destiny  of  men. 

Gass,  Sherlock  Bronson.    A  lover  of  the  chair.    Marshall  Jones, 
1919. 
Quiet   meditations;   a   subtle   rebuff   of  active  acquisitive  Americanism. 

Gissing,  George.     Private  papers  of  Henry  Ryecroft.     Boni  and 
Liveright,  1918.     (Modem  library). 

Contains  Gissing's  "ripest  reflections  on  books  and  life,  the  fruit  of  an 
experience  unique  in  its  kind,  conveyed  in  language  distinguished  above 
most  writing  of  the  age  for  its  chastened  elegance,  its  easy  grace  and  balance 
.  _  .  .  Grave  without  being  heavy,  learned  without  being  pedantic, 
wise  and  skeptical  without  being  frigid,  the  little  book  is  one  of  the  treasures 
of  English  literature." — P.  E.  More. 

Leith,  W.  Compton.    Apologia  diffidentis.    Lane,  1908. 

Introspective  study  of  the  feelings  of  a  shy  man,  written  with  grave  dis- 
tinction of  style. 

Domus  doloris.     Lane,  1919. 

Philosophical  meditations  of  a  soldier  in  a  hospital,  the  "House  of  pain," 
which  he  likens  to  a  university,  with  pain  the  teacher.  Written  with  a  rich- 
ness of  classical  allusion  in  a  style  reminiscent  of  Pater. 

Maeterlinck,  Maurice.    The  treasure  of  the  humble,  tr.  by  Alfred 

Sutro.     Dodd,  1897. 

The  search  for  beauty  in  life  is  described  with  elusive  grace  and  distinctive 
literary  charm. 

Wisdom  and  destiny,  tr.  by  Alfred  Sutro.    Dodd,  1898. 

An  attempt  to  reconcile  the  outward  happenings  of  life  over  which  a  man 
has  no  control  (destiny)  with  that  free  spontaneous  and  inward  life  which 
finds  expression  in  wisdom. — A .  L.  A.  catalog  1904. 

Maynard,  Theodore.    Carven  from  the  laurel  tree.    McBride,  1919. 

The  title  taken  from  the  couplet 

How  the  crucifix  may  be 

Carven  from  the  laurel  tree 
implies  the  Roman  Catholic  point  of  view  from  which  the  author  discusses 
mysticism,  sanctity  and  the  sanitary  inspector,  the  guild  idea,  and  the  humors 
of  the  saints. 

Paget,  Violet.    Euphorion,  by  Vernon  Lee.     Unwin,  1899. 

There  is  less  saw-dust  and  more  star-dust  in  the  books  of  Vernon  Lee  than 
in  any  other  contemporaries  we  have  read,  Walter  Pater,  John  Addington 
Symonds  and  Arthur  Symons  alone  excepted. — Thomas  Mosher. 


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BED  BOOKS 

There  are  few  books  which  go  with  midnight  soHtude  and  a 
candle.  It  is  much  easier  to  say  what  does  not  please  us  then, 
than  what  is  exactly  right.  The  book  must  be,  anyhow,  something 
benedictory  by  a  sinning  fellow  man.  Cleverness  would  be 
repellent  at  such  an  hour. — Tomlinson.     Old  junk. 

Bergengren,  Ralph.  The  comforts  of  home.  Atlantic  monthly 
press,  1918. 

Eight  confidential  essays  on  things  domestic,  such  as  the  furnace,  the 
plumber,  the  bath-room. 

"Sooner  or  later  some  enterprising  publisher  will  bring  out  the  Guest  chamber 
book-shelf;  or,  Twenty-five  best  books  for  the  best  bed-room.  Such  a  list 
would,  of  course,  begin  with  the  Bible  and  Shakespeare,  and  could  then 
conscientiously  settle  down  to  business  with  twenty-three  places  left.  A 
book  of  home  exercises,  illustrated  with  photographs  of  the  same  persistent 
gentleman  in  forty  or  fifty  more  or  less  ridiculous  positions  is  always  inter- 
esting ...  A  book  of  poems  to  digest  will  sometimes  entertain  a 
guest       .       .       .       and  (I  should  say)  the  book  you  are  now  reading." 

Brooks,  Charles  S.  There's  pippins  and  cheese  to  come.  Yale 
university  press,  1919. 

Twelve  whimsical,  quaintly  illustrated  essays. 

"By  some  slim  chance,  reader,  you  may  be  the  kind  of  person,  who,  on  a 
visit  to  a  strange  city,  makes  for  a  book-shop.  Of  course  your  slight  temporal 
business  may  detain  you  in  the  earlier  hours  of  the  day.  However,  these 
duties  being  done  and  the  afternoon  having  not  yet  declined,  do  you  not 
seek  a  book-shop  to  regale  yourself?  Doubtless  we  have  met.  I  admit 
a  bookish  quirk  maybe,  a  love  of  the  shelf,  a  weakness  for  morocco,  especially 
if  it  is  stained  with  age.  I  will  indeed,  shirk  a  wedding  for  a  book-shop. 
I'll  go  in  'just  to  look  about  a  bit,  to  see  what  the  fellow  has,'  and  on  occasion 
I  pick  up  a  volume." 

Crothers,  Samuel  McChord.    Among  friends.     Houghton,  1910. 

The  Anglo-American  school  of  polite  unlearning.  The  hundred  worst  books, 
My  missionary  life  in  Persia  are  some  of  the  topics  discussed  with  the  quaint 
wit  and  mellow  wisdom  of  Dr.  Crothers. 

Gardiner,  Alfred  G.     Pebbles  on  the  shore,  by  Alpha  of  the 
Plough.     Button,  1918.     (Wayfarer's  library). 
On  reading  in  bed,  umbrella  morals,  taxing  vanity,  intelligent  golf  balls, 
talking  to  one's  self  and  other  personal  subjects. 

Holliday,  Robert  Cortes.    Broome  Street  straws.     Doran,  1919. 

"It  is  said  that  essays  are  coming  in  again.  Every  once  in  a  while  some- 
body says  that.  'Tis  like  prophecies  concerning  the  immediate  end  of  the 
world.  However  it  (either  one  of  these  prophecies)  may  be  so  this  time. 
Still,  as  to  essays,  in  view  of  the  economy  of  ideas  now  going  .... 
that  likelihood  does  not  seem  so  possible.  Because,  whereas  you  can  write 
an  excellent  article  about  something  with  only  one  idea,  and  a  pretty 
fair  one,  (such  as  this)  with  no  idea  at  all,  to  write  the  best  sort  of  essay, 
which  is  about  nothing  much,  you  really  need  any  number  of  ideas." 

Lucas,  Edward  Verrall.     Fireside  and  sunshine.     Dutton,  1907. 
Whimsical  dissertations  on   toast,   walking  sticks,   fireworks  and  other 
subjects  Charles  Lamb  would  have  loved. 


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Milne,  Alan  Alexander.    If  I  may.    Button,  1920. 

An  ideal  bedside  book,  providing  just  the  subjects  of  meditation  that 
one  desires  at  bedtime,  trains  of  thought  that  grow  rosy  as  they  grow  dim. 
— Spectator,  IQ20. 

Morley,  Christopher.     Mince  pie;  adventures  on  the  sunny  side 
of  Grub  Street.     Doran,  1919. 

"This  book  is  intended  to  be  read  in  bed.  Please  do  not  attempt  to  read 
it  anywhere  else.  In  order  to  obtain  the  best  results  for  all  concerned,  do 
not  read  a  borrowed  copy,  but  buy  one.  If  the  bed  is  a  double  bed,  buy 
two.  Do  not  lend  a  copy  in  any  circumstances,  but  refer  your  friends  to 
the  nearest  bookshop  where  they  may  expiate  their  curiosity  ...  If 
one  asks  what  excuse  there  can  be  for  prolonging  the  existence  of  these  trifles, 
my  answer  is  that  there  is  no  excuse.  But  a  copy  on  the  bedside  sheK  may 
possibly  pave  the  w^y  to  easy  slumber."  ^/ 

Squire,  John  Collings.     Books  in  general,   by  Solomon  Eagle. 
Knopf,  1919-20.     2  v. 

Delightful  comments  on  life  and  literature  (Florence  Barclay,  Herrick 
and  Henry  James  are  among  the  celebrities),  fulfilling  the  author's  hope  of 
producing  the  sort  of  book  one  reads  in  without  tedium  for  ten  minutes  before 
one  goes  to  sleep. 

CURRY  AND  CAVIARE 

In  reading,  as  in  feeding,  there  are  proprieties,  times  and  sea- 
sons to  be  observed;  a  time  for  curry  and  a  time  for  caviare; 
and  the  wise  man  is  he,  and  fortunate,  who  can  adapt  his  diet 
to  his  moods. — J.  0.  P.  Bland. 

Beerbohm,  Max.    And  even  now.     Button,  1921. 

One  cannot  sum  up  his  creed.  Even  the  thing  he  satirizes  is  hard  to  define, 
but  he  has  been  the  embodiment  of  that  spirit  which  is  ready  to  mock  all 
that  take  themselves  too  seriously.  Max  is,  indeed,  a  part  of  the  English 
social  constitution,  a  part  of  the  so  often  praised  balance  of  institutions. 
He  is  the  check  on  ponderosity.  He  prevents  English  art  and  letters  from 
becoming  too  British. — Nation,  1921. 

Bourne,  Randolph  Silliman.     The  history  of  a  literary  radical; 
ed.  by  Van  Wyck  Brooks.     Huebsch,  1920. 

Papers  representing  the  scope  and  character  of  Bourne's  best  work,  in- 
cluding essays  in  literary  criticism,  social  criticism  and  the  autobiographical 
essay  which  gives  the  title  to  the  book. 

With  the  younger  set  of  the  professedly  intellectual  radicals,  as  well  as 
with  others,  who  though  no  longer  young  still  affect  juvenile  insurgency, 
the  late  Randolph  Bourne  ranl<s  as  a  leader. — Weekly  Review,  1921. 

Gerould,    Mrs.    Katharine    (Fullerton).      Modes     and    morals. 
Scribner,  1920. 

Pungent  discussions  of  The  new  simplicity,  British  novelists,  ltd..  Fashions 
in  men.  Tabu  and  temperament,  The  sensual  ear  and  other  phases  of  American 
Ufa. 

Guedalla,  Philip.    Supers  and  supermen.    Knopf,  1921. 

"Be  clever,  sweet  child,  and  let  who  will  be  good",  whispered  somebody 
to  Mr.  PhiUp  Guedalla,  and  Mr.  Guedalla  thought  that  was  a  bright  idea. 
His  book  ranges  in  its  brief  historical  and  literary  essays  from  King  Alfred 


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to  Lord  Kitchener,  from  King  Louis  Philippe  to  Mr.  Wilfred  Blunt.  He 
classifies  some  of  them  as  "Supers"  and  sub-classifies  them  as.  Some  his- 
torians, Some  literary  men,  Some  Turks,  Some  lawyers,  etc.,  with  separate 
essays  on  the  greater  figures. 

Huneker,  James.    Bedouins.     Scribner,  1920. 

Bedouins  is  exotic  and  yet  nobody  but  an  American  could  have  written 
it.  This  Bedouin  has  found  an  oasis  in  which  he  cultivates  flaming  flowers 
of  all  colors,  watered  by  iridescent  streams  and  glittering  fountains.  Mr. 
Huneker  is  an  American  brought  up  in  Philadelphia.  To  the  ordinary  mind 
it  seems  impossible  that  this  interpreter  of  the  occult  in  life,  of  the  weird 
in  literature,  and  even  of  the  esoteric  Satanic  in  humanity  could  come  out 
of  that  much  calumniated  city;  but  here  he  is  very  much  in  the  new  fashion, 
and  so  old-fashioned  that  he  forces  modes  of  thought,  which  went  out  with 
Baudelaire  and  the  dandies  of  Balzac,  into  form  again. —  Yale  Reviexv,  1920. 

Ivory,  apes  and  peacocks.     Scribner,  1915. 

Himeker  assumes  that  the  elements  are  already  well-grounded,  that  he  is 
dealing  with  the  initiated,  that  a  pause  to  explain  would  be  an  affront.  Sad 
work  for  the  Philistines — but  a  joy  to  the  elect ! — Mencken.     A  hook  of  prefaces. 

Littell,  Philip.     Books  and  things.     Harcourt,  1919. 

With  something  of  the  irresponsibility  of  the  Montaigne  and  the  disillusion- 
ment of  Anatole  France,  he  is  yet  in  full  cry  on  the  trail  of  realities.  His 
dread  of  the  insincere  and  the  sentimental  makes  him  amusingly  distrustful 
of  high  motives,  and  a  little  wistful  in  the  presence  of  "those  spiritual  moods 
to  which  nowadays  we  do  not  rise  by  accident,  nor  yet  by  will,  nor  at  all 
without  the  help  of  strong  hands."  If  in  speaking  of  men  and  women  he  is 
apt  to  dilate  their  failings  of  pomposity,  affectation  and  absurdity  for  the 
sheer  pleasure  of  pricking  the  bubbles  he  has  blown,  when  he  talks  of  books 
he  is  alert,  penetrating,  unprejudiced.  If  Mr.Littell  has  caught  from  abroad 
the  trick  of  letting  the  eyelids  look  a  little  weary  as  though  overweighted 
by  too  heavy  a  burden  of  human  experience  he  has  not  yet  lost  his  broad 
American  grin.     The  grin  is  the  more  contagious. — Nation,  1920. 

Mencken,  Henry  Louis.     Prejudices.     Knopf,  1919.     2  v. 

Saturnine  essays  which  condemn  Howells  and  H.  G.  Wells,  glorify  George 
Ade,  and  judge  other  writers  by  Mencken's  arbitrary  standards. 

He  has  no  objection  to  assuming  the  role  of  an  aesthetic  evangelist  or  a 
Billy  Sunday  of  the  beautiful,  seeking  to  infuse  loveliness  into  our  crude 
lives  by  vociferation. — Nation,  1920. 

MASCULINE  ATTITUDES 

Bergengren,  Ralph.     The  perfect  gentleman.    Atlantic  monthly 
press,  1919. 

Of  masculine  foibles  depicted  with  engaging  frankness  and  humor.  Con- 
tents: The  perfect  gentleman.  As  a  man  dresses.  In  the  chair.  Oh, 
shining  shoes!  On  making  calls.  The  Her  in  bed.  To  bore  or  not  to  bore. 
Where  toils  the  tailor.     Shaving  thoughts.     Oh,  the  afternoon  tea! 

Hendrick,  Ellwood.     Percolator  papers.     Harper,  1919. 

From  sources  as  diverse  as  the  Atlantic  Monthly  and  the  official  organ  of 
the  Chemist's  club,  the  Percolator,  these  essays  range  from  clever  and  amusing 
sketches  on  dining  out  and  other  social  customs  to  serious  discussions  of 
scientific  and  industrial  questions. 


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Holliday,  Robert  Cortes.     Walking-stick  papers.     Doran,  1918. 

Twenty-four  diverting  "records  of  excursions  of  a  visiting  mind,"  describing 
how  a  clerk  in  a  book  store  may  look  at  celebrities,  and  discussing  the  psy- 
chology of  carrying  a  cane,  wearing  a  hat,  reading  after  thirty  and  other 
amusing  topics. 

Morley,  Christopher.     Pipefuls.     Doubleday,  1920. 

Delectable  sketches  about  men  and  books  and  unexpected  sights  in  cities, 
written  with  delicate  charm  and  spontaneous  humor. 

Plirni  pudding.     Doubleday,  1921. 

Whimsical  papers  on  books,  and  on  men,  women,  dogs  and  tadpoles,  all 
illuminated  by  imagination  and  humor. 

THE  ETERNAL  FEMININE 

I  am  moved  to  declare  the  real  delights  of  the  apparently 
down- trodden,  and  in  the  face  of  a  bulky  literature  expressive  of 
pathos  and  protest,  to  confess  frankly  the  joys  of  being  a  woman. 
— Kirkland.     The  joys  of  being  a  woman. 

Bennett,  Arnold.     Our  women;  chapters    on  the    sex  discord. 
Doran,  1920. 

There  is  an  old  saying  that  every  man  has  in  him  the  material  for  one  good 
novel.  Arnold  Bennett  doubts  this,  but  asserts  that  every  man  has  in  him 
the  material  for  one  original  book  about  women.  This  delightfully  pro- 
vocative and  illogical  essay  full  of  challenging  contradictions  is  the  result. 

George,  William  Lionel.    The  intelligence  of  women.    Little,  1916. 

Shrewd  and  thought-provoking  comments  including  besides  the  title  essay 
Feminist  intentions,  Uniforms  for  women.  Woman  and  the  paint  pot.  The 
downfall  of  the  home,  The  break-up  of  the  family.  Some  notes  on  marriage . 

Kirkland,  Winifred.    The  joys  of  being  a  woman'and  other  essays. 
Houghton,  1918. 

Gay  little  comments  on  life  as  a  woman  sees  it;  on  a  man  in  the  house, 
old  clothes,  luggage,  the  lady  alone  at  night,  gardeners,  picnics,  and  letter- 
writing. 

Paget,  Violet.    Hortus  vitae;  essays  on  the  gardening  of  life,  by 
Vernon  Lee,  1904 

Charming  reflections  on  reading,  learning  music,  receiving  letters,  making 
presents,  and  other  aspects  of  a  life  attuned  to  happiness. 

Repplier,  Agnes.     Varia.     Houghton,  1897. 

Entertaining  comments  on  the  deathless  diary,  little  pharisees  in  fiction, 
modern  women  and  their  grandmothers,  from  a  Philadelphian's  stand-point. 

DOMESTICITIES 

Cohen,  Alfred  J.    When  a  man  commutes.     Dodd,  1918. 

Hilarious  sketches  of  suburban  life,  picturing  the  commuter's  adventures 
with  architects,  gardens,  cooks  and  week-end  guests. 


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McArthur,  Peter.    The  red  cow  and  her  friends.    Lane,  1919. 

Amusing  tales  of  a  purposeful  strong-minded  cow  and  other  animals  and 
things  bucolic. 

Sharp,  Dallas  Lore.    The  hills  of  Hingham.     Houghton,  1916. 

Shows  with  infectious  humor  why  certain  days  in  the  family  calendar  are 
red  letter  days: — the  day  of  the  first  melon,  the  pup's  birthday,  leafing  day 
and  the  day  for  ice-cutting. 

Sherwood,  Margaret.    Familiar  ways.     Little,  1917. 

Delightful  sketches  of  the  intimate  joys  of  a  householder. 

"The  little  house  looked  so  gentle  and  confiding  in  its  setting  of  green  grass 
and  apple  trees  the  morning  when  we  first  saw  it  that  we  could  not  resist 
the  spell.  It  coaxed  us  with  that  feminine  appeal  almost  impossible  to  with- 
stand. The  closed  door  and  locked  sashes,  the  grass  in  the  walk,  hinted  at 
loneliness,  suggested  that  we  could  understand;  and  so  because  of  its  quaintness 
and  the  pathos  of  the  hollowed  doorstep,  we  took  it  for  our  own." 

Sloane,  Julia  M.     The  smiling  hill-top.     Scribner,  1919. 

Gay  little  chronicles  of  the  daily  happenings  in  the  life  of  a  Ught-hearted 
family  in  California. 

Strunsky,  Simeon.     Belshazzar  court;  or.  Village  life  in  New 
York  City.     Holt,  1914. 
Clever,  amusing  chronicles  of  the  life  of  apartment  dwellers,  packed  with 
penetrating  observation  of  public  manners  and  homely  customs. 

Warner,  Frances  Lester.     Endicott  and  I.     Houghton,  1919. 

Any  reader,  radical  or  conservative,  seeking  a  brief  respite  from  continuous 
alarums  and  excursions,  should  go  sketching  with  Endicott,  an  early  Futurist; 
join  in  the  family  prayers, — not  always  a  solemn  occasion;  help  Margaret 
retrieve  the  Airedale  pup,  which  had  a  deceptively  aged  look  and  the  easy 
gait  of  a  zebra;  faithfully  contrive  with  Endicott's  wife  to  keep  his  economies 
from  being  too  disastrously  expensive;  or  sit  with  the  family  before  a  drift- 
wood fire  and  watch  the  rainbow  in  the  flames.  Best  of  all,  perhaps,  for  his 
refreshment  of  spirit,  let  him  observe  Geoffrey  trying  to  teach  his  mother — 
a  hopelessly  non-aquatic  animal — to  swim,  and  with  her  admire  the  faith 
that  makes  him  spend  entire  bathing  hours  in  alternately  launching  and 
dredging  for  her,  "with  the  morose  persistence  of  a  secretary  of  the  navy." 
— Nation,  ig20. 

Warner,  Frances  Lester  and  Warner,  Gertrude.  Life's  minor 
collisions.  Houghton,  1921. 
"Minor  friction  is  the  kind  that  produces  the  most  showy  results  with 
the  smallest  outlay.  You  can  stir  up  more  electricity  in  a  cat  by  stroking 
her  fur  the  wrong  way  than  by  dropping  her  in  a  well.  You  can  ruffle  the 
dearest  member  of  your  family  more  by  asking  him  twice  if  he  is  sure  that 
he  locked  the  back  door  than  his  political  opponents  could  stir  him  with  a 
Ubel." 

CHIEFLY  OF  HUMAN  INTEREST 

All  books  save  those  which  subserve  some  fact,  such  as,  say, 
ferro-concrete  or  the  migration  of  swallows  or  the  differential 
calculus,  and  even  perhaps  these  also,  are  about  persons. 
Any  inquisitiveness  about  others,  be  they  artists  or  mechanics 


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craftsmen  or  drudges,  which  does  not  refresh  us  by  a  new  point 
of  view,  give  a  new  sense  of  wonder,  or  act  as  tonic  to  the  soul 
is  so  much  waste  energy. — Jackson.    All  manner  of  folk. 

Addison,  Joseph.    Sir  Roger  de  Coverley  and  other  essays  from 
the  Spectator,  with  illustrations  by  H.  M.  Brock.    Dent,  1905. 

The  figure  of  Sir  Roger,  though  it  belongs  to  a  bygone  age  of  society,  is 
as  durable  as  human  nature  itself.  Scarcely  below  the  portrait  of  the  good 
knight  will  be  ranked  the  character  of  his  friend  and  biographer,  the  silent 
Spectator  of  men. — Courthope.     Addison. 

Benson,  Arthur  Christopher.    The  leaves  of  the  tree.     Putnam, 
1911. 

Portraits  carefully  drawn  from  life  of  Henry  Sedgwick,  J.  K.  Stephen, 
Frederick  Myers,  Henry  Bradshaw,  Charles  Kingsley,  Matthew  Arnold, 
Alfred  Newton,  and  four  English  bishops.  The  paper  on  Bradshaw  is  es- 
pecially delightful  for  bibliographers. 

Brown,  John.    Spare  hours.    Houghton,  1883.    3v. 

Among  the  vivid  character  sketches  are  those  of  Marjorie  Fleming,  famous 
Edinburgh  physicians  and  other  Scotch  worthies. 

Carlyle,  Thomas.     On  heroes,  hero  worship  and  the  heroic  in 
history.     Scribner,  1901.     (Centenary  ed.) 

Six  lectures,  treating  of  the  hero  as  divinity  (Odin);  prophet  (Mahomet); 
poet  (Dante,  Shakespeare);  priest  (Luther,  Knox);  man  of  letters  (Johnson, 
Rousseau,  Burns);  king  (Cromwell,  Napoleon). 

Chapman,  John  Jay.     Memories  and  milestones.     Moffat,  1915. 
Presents  vividly  such  famous  figures  as  William  James,  Horace  Howard 
Fumess,  Charles  Eliot  Norton  and  Julia  Ward  Howe. 

Colvin,  Sir  Sidney.    Faces  and  places.     Scribner,  1921. 

Intimate  sketches  of  Stevenson,  Meredith,  Henry  James  and  Edward 
Fitzgerald  and  other  notable  personalities  who  made  up  the  author's  circle 
of  friends. 

Dobson,  Austin.     Later  essays,   1917-1920.     Oxford  university 
press,  1921. 
Seven  delicately  etched  miniatures  of  eighteenth  century  characters. 

Gosse,  Edmund  William.  Portraits  and  sketches.  Scribner,  1912. 
Vivid,  pictorial  studies  from  personal  acquaintance,  of  literary  men  of 
varying  distinction,  Swinburne,  Philip  James  Bailey,  "Orion"  Home,  Aubrey 
de  Vere,  Tennyson,  Whittier,  J.  H.  Shorthouse,  Mandell  Creighton,  Andrew 
Lang,  Wolcott  Balestier,  Carl  Snoilsky,  Eugene  Melchior  de  Vogue,  Andre 
Gide. 

Holliday,  Robert  Cortes.  Turns  about  town.  Doran,  1921. 
It  is  for  his  extraordinary  quality  as  a  reporter,  an  interviewer,  that  one 
reader  most  values  Mr.  Holliday.  How  many  people  now  writing  can 
approach  him  in  the  knack  of  establishing  contact  with  a  personality  in  a 
dozen  paragraphs  or  hitting  off  a  portrait  sketch  in  a  dozen  words? — Literary 
Review,  ig2i. 


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Jackson,  Holbrook.    All  manner  of  folk.    Kennerley,  1912. 

Informal  essays  on  varied  personalities: — Synge,  Whistler,  Thoreau, 
Jefferies,  Hyndman,  Meredith  and  others. 

Kenyon,  C.  Fred.  Set  down  in  malice;  a  book  of  reminiscences 
by  Gerald  Cumberland.  Brentano,  1919. 
During  the  author's  progress  from  youth  onward  through  the  paths  of 
journalism,  he  came  in  contact  with  many  personalities,  particularly  those  of 
the  literary  and  artistic  worlds.  Each  of  his  sketches  is  a  pen  portrait  of 
the  intellect  and  physique  of  his  subject.  Includes  such  names  as  Frank 
Harris,  Arnold  Bennett,  Sir  Herbert  Tree,  Hall  Caine. — Pittsburgh  Monthly 
Bulletin,  iq20. 

Pater,  Walter.    Miscellaneous  studies,  prepared  for  the  press  by 

C.  L.  Shadwell.     Macmillan,  1895. 

Contains  the  "imaginary  portraits",  exquisite  sketches  of  French  and 
Flemish  gentlefolk. 

Raymond,  E.  T.    All  and  sundry.     Holt,  1920. 

Supplements  his  former  volume,  Uncensored  celebrities,  1919,  with  a  sheaf 
of  thirty-six  short,  pungent  character  sketches  of  notable  persons,  ranging 
from  the  Prince  of  Wales  to  Clemenceau  and  Chesterton. 

Russell,  George  William  Erskine.     Prime  ministers  and  some 
others;  a  book  of  reminiscences.     Scribner,  1919. 
Genial  essays  on  politics,  education,  religion  and  famous  men,  including 
nine  prime  ministers  from  Lord  Palmerston  to  Sir  Henry  Campbell-Bannerman 
"in  honor  of  friendship." 

Stevenson,  Robert  Louis.     Memories  and  portraits.     Scribner, 
1902. 

A  certain  thread  of  meaning  binds  these  papers.  Memories  of  childhood 
and  youth,  portraits  of  those  who  have  gone  before  us  in  the  battle, — taken 
together  they  build  up  the  face   of   what  was  once  myself. — Author's  note. 

One  of  the  essays  is  the  perennially  joyous  Penny  plain  and  twopence 
coloured. 

ly^  Strachey,  Lytton.    Eminent  Victorians.    Putnam,  1918. 

Vigorous  and  unconventional  portraits  of  Cardinal  Manning,  Florence 
Nightingale,  Dr.  Arnold  and  General  Gordon. 

YOUTH  AND  AGE 

At  twenty,  my  life  was  a  feverish  adventure;  at  thirty,  it  was 
a  problem;  at  forty,  it  was  a  solemn  duty;  at  fifty,  it  is  a  joyful 
journey  well  begun. — E.  P.  Butler.     Hoiv  it  feels  to  be  fifty. 

Bergengren,  Ralph.    The  seven  ages  of  man.    Atlantic  monthly 
press,  1921. 

Babyhood  and  boyhood,  youngmanhood,  fatherhood  and  old,  old  age  are 
the  subjects  of  these  essays,  with  two  diverting  chapters  on  meeting  the 
beloved  and  on  being  a  landlord. 


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Boas,  Ralph  Philip,  ed.  Youth  and  the  new  world.  Atlantic 
monthly  press,  1921. 

Papers  dealing  with  current  problems  and  ranging  in  mood  and  point  of 
view  from  bewildered  spinster  to  belligerent  radical,  from  labor  leader  to 
college  president.  Dean  Briggs  on  Inter-collegiate  athletics  and  the  war, 
J.  N.  Lamed  in  A  criticism  of  two-party  politics,  John  Mitchell  on  The  eco- 
nomic necessity  of  trade-unionism, Bertrand  Russell  on  National  independence, 
and  interna tionaHsm,  Mr.  Canby  on  Sentimental  America  and  Dr.  Gordon 
on  Reasonable  hopes  of  American  religion — these  papers  suggest  the  scope 
and  quahty  of  the  book. 

Bourne,  Randolph  Silliman.     Youth  and  life.    Houghton,  1913. 

Candid,  well-written  essays,  analyzing  the  quaUties  of  youth  and  expressing 

the  young  author's  hopeful,  enthusiastic  attitude  toward  life. — Best  Books, igij. 

Grant,  Robert.^  The  convictions  of  a  grandfather.  Scribner,  1912. 
In  a  vein  both  shrewd  and  genial  with  a  keen  eye  for  the  foibles  of  the  day, 
but  a  kindly  tolerance  withal,  a  progressive  grandfather  discusses  with  his 
family,  such  omnipresent  topics  of  the  times  as  the  American  woman,  auto- 
mobiles, the  servant  problem,  divorce  and  old  age  pensions. — Best  Books,  1912. 

Locker-Lampson,  Godfrey  Tennyson.  Thoughts  in  middle  life. 
Himiphreys,  1919. 

Thirty-seven  little  cameos  on  such  subjects  as  one's  own  company  and 
the  family  clock. 

Murry,  John  Middleton.  The  evolution  of  an  intellectual. 
Knopf,  1921. 
Chronologically  arranged,  the  essays  cover  the  period  October,  1916,  to 
April,  1919.  They  record  the  disillusionment  of  an  intelligent  modem  idealist, 
who,  in  the  process,  has  acquired,  not  cynicism,  but  wisdom. —  Yale  review, 
1 92 1. 

Paine,  Harriet  Eliza.     Old  people.     Houghton,  1910. 

Cheerful  essays  on  the  privileges  of  old  age,  showing  how  to  grow  old 
happily. 

Scott,  Temple."  I  The  silver  age  and  other  dramatic  memories. 
Seltzer,  1919. 

Charming  reflections  capturing  the  mellow  mood  of  old  age,  on  such  sub- 
jects as  The  lady  and  the  singing  bird,  Reb  Yankel,  New  York  at  twilight, 
Fifth  Avenue  and  the  Boulevard  Saint  Michel,  at  the  sign  of  the  golden  dusk. 

Sturgis,  Esther  Mary   (Ogden).     "Mrs.   R.   Clipston  Sturgis". 
Random  reflections  of  a  grandmother.      Houghton,    1917. 
Lively  chronicles  of  some  of  the  joys  that  come  to  a  grandmother:  husband, 
children,  guests,  attics  and  a  country  house. 

HOBBIES 

And  now  each  man  bestride  his  hobby  and  dust  away  his  bells 
to  what  tune  he  pleases. — Lamb. 

Carrick,  Alice  Van  Leer.  Collector's  luck;  or,  A  repository  of 
pleasant  and  profitable  discourses  descriptive  of  the  house- 
hold furniture  and  ornaments  of  olden  time.  Atlantic 
monthly  press,  1919. 


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Collecting  isn't  just  a  fad;  it  isn't  even  just  a  divine  madness:  properly- 
interpreted  it  is  a  liberal  education. — Preface. 

Describes  the  quest  for  hidden  treasures  in  old  houses — glass-ware,  lustre 
pitchers  and  teacups,  old  valentines,  silhouettes  and  white  counterpanes. 

Conway,  Sir  Martin.     Mountain  memories.     Cassell,  1920. 

"Reader,  if  you  and  I  are  to  be  real  comrades,  we  must  share  the  same 
adventures  of  fancy  and  of  soul.  You  must  see  my  whales  and  elephants 
in  the  clouds  and  leap  to  the  same  God-given  revelation  whether  in  art  or 
nature.     My  fairies  must  be  thy  fairies  and  my  gods  thy  gods!" 

Grey,  Edward,  ist  viscount.     Recreation.    Houghton,  1920. 

Discusses  the  place  of  recreation  in  a  well-ordered  life,  and  especially 
Lord  Grey's  favorite  pastimes: — fly-fishing,  observations  of  birds  and  reading. 

Hine,  Reginald  L.    The  cream  of  curiosity.     Button,  1920. 

Essays  founded  upon  manuscripts  of  historical  and  literary  interest  in 
Mr.  Hine's  collection;  a  delightful  book  of  genuine  substance  and  antiquarian 
charm. 

Mackenzie,    William   Roy.      Quest    of    the    ballad.      Princeton 
university  press,  1919. 

Includes  some  of  the  ballads  found  in  Nova  Scotia  and  discusses  types, 
variations  and  the  scheme  of  ballad  singing. 

Newton,  Alfred  Edward.    The  amenities  of  book  collecting  and 
kindred  affections.     Atlantic  monthly  press,  1918. 

It  was  while  I  was  poking  about  among  the  book-shops  that  it  occurred 
to  me  to  write  a  little  story  about  my  books — when  and  where  I  had  bought 
them,  the  prices  I  had  paid,  and  the  men  I  had  bought  them  from,  many  of 
whom  I  knew  well. — Preface. 

In  addition  to  five  essays  on  the  joys  of  book-collecting,  there  are  pleasant 
comments  on  Boswell,  Charles  Lamb,  Anthony  Trollope  and  other  writers. 

A  magnificent  farce,  and  other  diversions  of  a  book 


collector.     Atlantic  monthly  press,  1921. 

Relates  with  infectious  enthusiasm  the  friendships  with  books  and  men 
and  the  delightful  chance  acquaintances  which  have  come  to  the  author  in 
forming  his  collection. 

Perry,  Bliss.    The  amateur  spirit.    Houghton,  1904. 

Pleasant  essays  showing  how  the  enthusiasm  of  the  amateur  and  profes- 
sional skill  may  be  combined  in  the  workaday  world. 

Roosevelt,  Kermit.    The  happy  hunting  grounds.    Scribner,  1920. 
Describes  adventures  in  quest  of  sable  antelope,  desert  sheep,  and  moose 
and  includes  a  chapter  on  book-hunters  in  South  America. 

ShauflBier,  Robert  Haven.     The  joyful  heart.     Houghton,  1914. 

In  the  author's  words,  "a  manual  of  enthusiasms"  which  sets  forth  the 
happiness  that  comes  from  the  possession  of  hobbies. 


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Scoville,  Samuel,  jr.     Everyday  adventures.     Atlantic  monthly 
press,  1920. 

Essays  describing  a  lawyer's  recreations  in  the  open  with  animals  and 
flowers. 

Torrey,  Bradford.    Nature's  invitation,  notes  of  a  birdgazer  north 
and  south.     Houghton,  1904. 
Discoveries  made  on  walks  in  New  Hampshire,  Florida,  Texas  and  Arizona. 

Van  Dyke,  Henry.    Fisherman's  luck  and  other  uncertain  things. 
Scribner,  1899. 

Pleasant  reflections  on  angling  out-of-doors  and  in  books,  an  open  fire, 
and  a  lazy  brook. 

Walton,  Izaak  and  Cotton,  Charles.     Compleat  angler;  ed.  by 
Richard  Le  Gallienne.    Lane,  1904.     (Crown  library). 

A  quaint  and  loving  exposition  of  the  ancient  art,  delightful  in  subject 
matter  and  in  the  manner  of  its  telling. 

OUT  OF  DOORS 

Life  is  sweet,  brother  .  .  .  There's  day  and  night, 
brother,  both  sweet  things;  sun,  moon  and  stars,  all  sweet  things; 
there's  likewise  a  wind  on  the  heath. — George  Borrow. 

Bailey,  Liberty  Hyde.  Holy  earth.  Comstock  pub.  co.,  [cl916]. 
"When  one  really  feels  the  response  to  the  native  earth,  one  feels  also  the 
obligation  and  impulse  to  share  it  with  the  neighbor.  The  earth  is  not  selfish. 
It  is  open  and  free  to  all.  It  invites  everywhere.  The  naturist  is  not  sel- 
fish, he  shares  all  his  joys  and  discoveries,  even  to  the  extent  of  publishing 
them." 

Baker,  Ray  Stannard.     Great  possessions,  by  David  Grayson. 
Doubleday,  1916. 

Papers,  friendly  and  refreshing,  about  "the  goodly  plain  things — the  smells, 
sights,  sounds,  touches  and  tastes  of  the  country." 

Burroughs,  John.    Leaf  and  tendril.    Houghton,  1908. 

As  most  of  the  essays  in  this  volume  were  written  in  a  little  bark-study 
that  is  surrounded  on  all  sides  by  vineyards,  I  have  thought  it  not  inappro- 
priate to  go  to  the  vine  for  my  title.  The  "leaf"  may  stand  very  well  for  the 
nature  sketches  and  the  "tendril"  may  symbolize  those  other  papers  in  which 
I  have  groped  my  way  in  some  of  the  great  problems,  seeking  some  law  or 
truth  to  cling  to. — Preface. 

Signs  and  seasons.     Houghton,  1891. 

"One  has  only  to  sit  down  in  the  woods  or  fields  or  by  the  shore  of  the 
river  or  lake  and  nearly  everything  of  interest  will  come  round  to  him." 

Under  the  maples.     Houghton,  1921. 

Published  fifty  years  after  Wake-robin,  this  volume  has  the  same  sim- 
plicity and  freshness  and  the  same  zest  for  adventure.     It  deals  with  holidays 


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in  the  Great  Smoky  Mountains  and  in  California,  and  with  Roosevelt  at 
Pine  Knot. 

Eaton,  Walter  Pritchard.     Green  trails  and  upland  pastures. 
Doubleday,  1917. 

Three  of  the  essays  describe  the  attraction  of  Glacier  Park,  while  the  others 
are  concerned  with  the  windy  hilltops  and  green  valleys  of  New  England. 

"There  are  alluring  names  in  the  comer  of  the  world  where  I  dwell,  such 
as  Upper  Meadow,  Sky  Farm  and  High  Pasture.  Is  there  not  something 
breeze- blown  and  spacious  about  the  very  words  High  Pasture?  You  do  not 
need  a  picture  to  bring  the  image  to  the  eye." 

Fabre,  Jean  Henri  Casimir.     Life  and  love  of  the  insect.    Mac- 
millan,  1911. 

Vivacious  studies  of  the  habits  of  insects.  Like  his  other  books:  Mason 
bees  (,1914),  Life  of  the  spider  (1913),  Social  life  in  the  insect  world  (1914) 
they  reveal  keen  observation  and  charming  style.  Autobiographical  essays 
in  his  Life  of  the  fly  (1913)  tell  with  touching  simplicity  why  he  devoted 
his  life  to  the  study  of  nature. 

Jefiferies,  Richard.     The  open  air.     Button,  1915.  (Wayfarer's 
library) . 

Essays  that  reveal  the  author's  quick  response  to  the  magic  of  light  and 
color. 

Story  of  my  heart.     Longmans,  1901. 

I^  "If  your  mind  needs  a  whiff  of  strong  air,  blue  and  cleansing,  from  hilltops 
and  primrose  valleys,  try  the  Story  of  my  heart." — Roger  Mifflin  in  The 
haunted  bookshop. 

Morris,  Mrs.  Elisabeth  (W.)     Jonathan    papers,   by   Elisabeth 
Woodbridge.     Houghton,  1912. 

Refreshing  essays  on  the  simple  joys  of  life — berrying,  trout  fishing,  duck- 
shooting,  gardening.  More  Jonathan  papers  (1915)  are  written  with  the 
same  engaging  humor. 

Paget,  Violet.     The  enchanted  woods,  by  Vernon  Lee.  Lane,  1905. 

Vernon  Lee  possesses  a  mind  richly  imbued  with  the  lore  of  the  finest 
literature,  and  distinguished  by  just  that  touch  of  paradox  of  the  unexpected 
which  is  the  other  indispensable  requisite  of  the  true  essayist. — Outlook 
(Eng.)  1903. 

Sharp,  Dallas  Lore.    Beyond  the  pasture  bars.    Century,  1914. 
(Wild  life  series). 

Fascinating  essays  about  birds,  skunks,  opossums  and  squirrels.  His 
Watcher  in  the  woods,  (1903)  and  Fall  of  tJie  year,  Spring  of  the  year,  Winter 
of  the  year  (1911-12)  have  the  same  Uvely  subjects  and  amusing  style. 

The  face  of  the  fields.     Houghton,  1908. 

Happy  aspects  of  Ufe  on  a  Massachusetts  farm,  including  a  captivating 
description  of  finding  turtle  eggs  for  Agassiz. 


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Sharp,  William.    Where  the  forest  murmurs,  by  Fiona  Macleod. 
Scribner,  1906. 

Exquisite  expression  of  the  subtle  changes  of  the  sky  and  sea  and  wood- 
land touched  with  Gaelic  mysticism. 


Thoreau,  Henry  David.   Walden ;  or,  Life  in  the  woods.  Houghton, 
1893.     (Riverside  ed.) 

How  Thoreau  built  a  little  house  in  the  woods  and  lived  there  with  only 
birds  and  animals  and  flowers  for  neighbors. 


Torrey,  Bradford.    Clerk  of  the  woods.    Houghton,  1912. 

Weekly  chronicle  of  things  out  of  doors,  like  birds  and  berry  pastures 
and  chipmunks. 

Wood,  Samuel  T.    Rambles  of  a  Canadian  naturalist.    Dutton, 
1916. 

Seventy  very  brief,  readable  essays  written  by  a  suburban  observer  of  a 
Canadian  city. 


BIRDS  AND  BLOSSOMING 

There  are  arbutus  days  in  one's  calendar,  days  when  the  trail- 
ing flower  fairly  calls  him  to  the  woods. — ^John  Burroughs. 

Burroughs,  John.    Wake-robin.    Houghton,  1893. 

A  book  about  birds  that  brings  home  the  river  and  the  sky  and  the  sparrow 
singing  at  dawn  in  the  alder  bush. — Preface. 

Hudson,  William  Henry.     Adventures  among  birds.     Dutton, 
1915. 

His  work  is  a  vision  of  natural  beauty  and  human  life  as  it  might  be, 
quickened  and  sweetened  by  the  sun  and  rain  and  by  fellowship  with  all  other 
forms  of  life.  The  finest  vision  now  being  given  to  us  who  are  more  in  want 
of  it  than  any  generation  has  ever  been. — John  Galsworthj'. 

Miller,  Mrs.  Harriet  (Mann).  Bird  ways,  by  Olive  Thorne  Miller. 
Houghton,  1885. 

Pleasant  record  of  observations  of  thrushes,  owls,  blackbirds  and  sparrows. 


Torrey,  Bradford.     Field  days  in  California.     Houghton,  1913. 

Vivacious  essays  on  bird  life  in  California  and  on  the  pleasure  of  reading 
a  check  list. 


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GARDENS 

Little  garden  gods, 

You  of  good  bestowing, 

You  of  kindly  showing 
Mid  the  pottings  and  the  pods, 
Watchers  of  geranium  beds. 

Pinks  and  stocks  and  such-like  orders, 
Rose  and  sleepy  poppy-heads — 

Bless  us  in  our  borders. 
Little  garden  gods. 

Little  garden  gods, 

Bless  the  time  of  sowing. 

Watering  and  growing; 
Lastly  when  our  sunflower  nods, 
And  our  rambler's  red  array 

Waits  the  honey-bee  her  labours. 
Bless  our  garden  that  it  may 

Beat  our  next-door  neighbour's, 
Little  garden  gods. 

— Patrick  Chalmers.  Green  days  and  blue  days. 


Cable,  George  Washington.   The  amateur  garden.    Scribner,  1914. 

Pleasant  essays  on  the  charm  of  gardens  that  express  the  owner's  indi- 
viduality, with  illustrations  drawn  from  Massachusetts  and  New  Orleans. 

Castle,    Mrs.   Agnes    (Sweetman)    and   Castle,   Egerton.     Our 

sentimental  garden.    Lippincott,  1914. 

Romantic  description  of  a  Sussex  garden,  showing  how  and  when  to  enjoy 
green  things  growing. 

Earle,  Alice  Morse.    Old  time  gardens.    Macmillan,  1916. 

Sketches  of  charming  gardens  in  different  parts  of  the  world,  emphasizing 
their  literary  or  historical  associations.  The  lure  of  the  garden,  by  Hil- 
degarde  Hawthorne  (Century,  1911)   has  the  same  purpose. 

Earle,  Maria  Theresa  (Mrs.  C.  W.   Earle).    Potpourri  from  a 
Surrey  garden.    Button,  1898. 

A  garden  lover's  journal,  with  lively  comments  on  flowers,  garden  books 
and  other  topics. 

Flint,   Martha   Bockee.     Garden   of   simples.     Scribner,    1900. 

Book  of  folk-lore,  plant-lore  and  poet-lore,  good  to  read  in  winter  by  the 
driftwood  fire. — Nation,  igoo. 


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Hyatt,  Alfred  H.,  comp.     A  book  of  gardens.    Foulis,  n.  d. 

Ten  charming  essays  on  gardens,  including  Ruskin,  Cowper,  Christopher 
North.  His  Book  of  Old-world  gardens,  has  ten  earlier  English  essays 
on  the  same  subject. 

Moore,  Frank  Frankfort.     A  garden  of  peace.     Doran,  1920. 

Rambling  papers  on  the  delights  of  making  a  formal  garden,  interspersed 
with  reminiscences  of  books  and  plays  and  chats  with  the  author's  little 
daughter. 

Tabor,  Grace.    Old-fashioned  gardening.    McBride,  1913. 

Expresses  the  elusive  charm  of  early  American  gardens,  Dutch,  Quaker, 
Puritan,  Cavalier,  and  Spanish.  Mount  Vernon  and  Monticello  are  de- 
scribed in  the  chapter  on  Presidents'  gardens. 

Thaxter,  Mrs.  Celia  (Laighton).    An  island  garden.    Houghton, 
1904. 

Description  of  the  little  garden  on  Appledore,  Isle  of  Shoals,  one~of  the 
most  famous  American  gardens.     Illustrated  by  Childe  Hassam. 


Warner,  Charles  Dudley.    My  summer  in  a  garden.    Houghton, 
1898. 

Celebrates  the  love  of  dirt,  the  joy  of  growing  cabbages  and  other  garden 
delights. 


THE  FOOTPATH  WAY 

Hazlitt's  own  confession  from  his  essay  "On  going  a  journey" 
is  so  good  that  there  should  be  a  tax  laid  on  all  who  have  not 
read  it : 

"Give  me  the  clear  blue  sky  above  my  head,"  says  he,  "and 
the  green  turf  beneath  my  feet,  a  winding  road  before  me  and  a 
three  hours  march  to  dinner — and  then  to  thinking!  It  is  hard  if 
I  cannot  start  some  game  on  these  lone  heaths.  I  laugh,  I  run, 
I  leap,  I  sing  for  joy." — Stevenson.  Walking  tours. 

Baker,  Ray  Stannard.     The  friendly  road;  new  adventures  in 
contentment,  by  David  Grayson.     Doubleday,  1913. 

Cheerful  account  of  the  author's  three  weeks'  walking  trip,  his  thoughts 
and  experiences  and  the  friends  he  made  by  the  way. — Best  Books,  1913. 

Belloc,  Hilaire.    Hills  and  the  sea.    Scribner,  1906. 

Of  excursions  of  two  jolly  friends,  who  found  that  "the  best  way  of  all 
is  on  foot,  where  one  is  a  man  like  any  other  man,  with  the_  sky  above  one, 
and  the  road  beneath,  and  the  world  on  every  side,  and  time  to  see  all." 


VIEWPOINTS  IN  ESSAYS  27 

Brooks,  Charles  S.    Journeys  to  Bagdad.    Yale  university  press, 
1916. 

"Are  you  of  that  elect  who,  certain  seasons  of  the  year — perhaps  in  March 
when  there  is  timid  promise  of  the  spring  or  in  the  days  of  October  when 
there  are  winds  across  the  earth  and  gorgeous  panic  of  fallen  leaves — are  you 
of  that  elect  who,  on  such  occasion,  or  any  occasion  else,  feel  stirrings  in 
you  to  be  quit  of  whatever  prosy  work  is  yours,  to  throw  down  your  book 
or  ledger,  or  your  measuring  tape — if  such  device  marks  your  service — and 
to  go  forth  into  the  world?" 

Grahame,  Kenneth.    Pagan  papers.    Lane,  1898. 

Essays  on  the  romance  of  the  road,  loafing,  the  fairy  wicket  and  similar 
subjects. 

Jackson,  Holbrook.    Southward  ho!  and  other  essays.     Button, 
n.  d.  (Wayfarer's  library). 

"Anyone  can  go  a  journey,  but  every  journey  is  a  pilgrimage  for  those  who 
go  to  Nowhere.  To  set  out  for  Nowhere  requires  courage,  therefore  those 
who  go  there  may  be  said  to  be  alive.  They  are  ready  to  take  their  chances 
and  do  not  barter  with  a  guide-book  for  promises  of  scenery,  antiquities,  or 
other  conventional  reward,  at  the  end  of  the  day's  march.  Enough  for 
them  the  open  road  and  the  things  life  offers  by  the  wayside." 

Sidgwick,  Arthur  Hugh.    Walking  essays.    Arnold,  1912. 

Delectable  reminiscences,  redolent  of  fresh  fields  and  new  pathways. 

"It  may  be  evening,  in  London,  in  company:  yet  the  noise  of  the  traffic 
dies  away;  the  glare  of  the  light  and  the  babble  of  others  drops  from  you: 
you  are  alone  with  a  kindred  soul  and  (ii  possible)  a  map  spread  out  between 
you.  Then  point  by  point,  detail  by  detail,  you  recall  the  larger  movements 
of  your  hfe;  every  path  that  you  have  taken,  every  stone  and  summit  on 
which  you  stood,  revive  and  take  place  under  the  plastic  stress  of  your  joint 
memories;  the  outline  of  the  eternal  hills  stands  before  you,  loud  and  high 
as  the  call  of  duty:  once  more  the  soft  rain  enwraps  you  or  the  clean  wind 
whips  you  into  ecstasy.  For  a  moment  in  the  midst  of  our  dividing  and 
abstracting  civilization  you  are  again  a  man  whole  and  concrete." 

Stevenson,    Robert    Louis.      Virginibus    puerisque,    and    other 
papers.    Scribner,  1904. 

Two  of  these  essays.  Walking  tours  and  the  Apology  for  idlers,  are  written 
in  holiday  mood  and  set  forth  with  deft  touches  the  delights  of  the  open 
road  and  the  receptive  mind. 

Thoreau,  Henry  David.    Excursions.     Houghton,  [cl893]. 

"It  is  true,  we  are  but  faint-hearted  crusaders,  even  the  walkers,  nowadays 
who  undertake  no  persevering,  never-ending  enterprises.  Our  expeditions 
are  but  tours,  and  come  round  again  at  evening  to  the  old  hearthside  from 
which  we  set  out.  We  should  go  forth  on  the  shortest  walk,  perchance,  in 
the  spirit  of  undying  adventure,  never  to  return — prepared  to  send  back 
our  embalmed  hearts  only  as  relics  to  our  desolate  kingdoms." 

Torrey,  Bradford.     Footing  it  in  Franconia.     Houghton,  1901. 

Happy  chronicles  of  the  birds  and  beasts  and  flowers  seen  in  the  New 
England  mountains. 


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LANDS  AND  PEOPLES 

There  are  many  places  uncharted  that  are  worth  a  visit. 
Treasure  Island  is  somewhere  on  the  seas,  the  still-vexed  Ber- 
moothes  feel  the  wind  of  some  southern  ocean,  the  coast  of  Bohemia 
lies  on  the  furthermost  shore  of  fairyland — all  of  these  wonderful, 
like  white  towers  in  the  mind.  .  .  If  we  must  be  ocean 
liners  all  day,  plodding  between  known  and  monotonous  ports, 
at  least  we  may  be  tramp  ships  at  night,  cargoed  with  strange 
stuffs  and  trafficking  for  lonely  and  unvisited  seas. — Brooks. 
Journeys  to  Bagdad. 

Brown,  Alice.    By  oak  and  thorn.    Houghton,  1896. 

Essays  in  praise  of  gypsying  in  English  byways  and  of  the  delectable 
sights  and  foods  to  be  found  there. 

Crothers,   Samuel  McChord.     Humanly  speaking.     Houghton, 
1912. 

The  contemporaneousness  of  Rome,  The  unaccustomed  ears  of  Europe, 
the  Toryism  of  travellers  are  the  amusing  reactions  of  an  observant  Bostonian. 

Curie,  James  Herbert.    This  world  of  ours.    Doran,  1921. 

After  two  essays  describing  how  the  author  found  the  world  his  oyster,  he 
sketches  adventures  in  little  known  places,  Caracas,  the  Andes,  Jerusalem, 
Cochin  China  and  a  journey  from  Archangel  to  Astrachan. 

Heam,  Lafcadio.    Exotics  and  retrospectives.     Little,  1898. 

Graceful  studies  of  experiences  in  two  hemispheres,  picturing  the  beauty 
of  Fuji-yama  and  the  quaint  charm  of  insect  musicians  with  the  same  fidelity 
of  detail. 

Glimpses  of  unfamiliar  Japan.     Houghton,  1894.     2  v. 


Studies  of  the  inner  life  of  Japan,  written  with  exquisite  sympathy  and 
delicate  charm  of  style. 

Irving,  Washington.    The  Alhambra.    Putnam,  1891.    (Knicker- 
bocker ed.) 

"It  was  my  endeavour  scrupulously  to  depict  its  half  Spanish,  half  oriental 
character,  its  mixture  of  the  heroic,  the  poetic,  the  grotesque;  to  revive  the 
traces  of  grace  and  beauty  fast  fading  from  its  walls;  to  record  the  regal  and 
chivalrous  traditions  concerning  those  who  once  trod  its  courts." 

The  sketch-book.     Putnam,  1897.     (Knickerbocker  ed). 

"I  was  always  fond  of  visiting  new  scenes  and  observing  strange  characters 
I  have  wandered  through  different  countries  and  witnessed 
many  of  the  shifting  scenes  of  life.  I  cannot  say  that  I  have  studied  them 
with  the  eye  of  a  philosopher,  but  rather  with  the  same  sauntering  gaze 
with  which  the  lovers  of  the  picturesque  stroll  from  the  window  of  one  print- 
shop  to  another." 


VIEWPOINTS  IN  ESSAYS  29 

Howells,  William  Dean.    Familiar  Spanish  travels.    Harper,  1913. 

Thirteen  graceful  essays  which  describe  with  inimitable  charm  and  appre- 
ciation things  and  people  seen  on  the  conventional  six  weeks'  tour  of  Spain. 
— Best  Books,  1 91 3. 

Hudson,  William  Henry.    A  traveler  in  little  things.     Button, 
1921. 

Some  of  the  little  things,  described  with  imagination  and  sympathy  for 
elusive  beauty,  are  English  villages  and  villagers,  apple  blossoms,  the  vanishing 
curtsey,  little  girls  and  birds  and  insects.  The  title  was  suggested  by  a 
chance  encounter  in  a  commercial  hotel  with  a  pompous  gentleman  who 
traveled  in  "something  very  large." 

James,  William  Powell.  The  lure  of  the  map.    2d  ed.    Methuen, 
1920. 

Shows  how  the  Atlas  is  for  all  tastes,  for  all  pieties  and  all  patriotisms, 
and  how  the  tales  of  pilgrims,  pirates  and  merchant  adventurers  have  a 
perpetual  fascination. 

Jefferies,  Richard.    Field  and  hedgerow.     Longmans,  1900. 

He  is  an  enchanter  who  at  will  transports  you  into  the  midst  of  a  green 
English  landscape,  where  the  swallows  skim  the  corn-fields  and  the  butter- 
flies flutter  among  the  wildflowers,  where  the  chaffinch  chirps  from  the  ex- 
panding oak  leaves,  and  the  water  sparkles  to  the  sunshine. — Art  Journal,  1893. 

McFee,  William.    Harbours  of  memory.    Doubleday,  1921. 

Sketches  written  on  board  ship  and  in  intervals  between  voyages,  bringing 
into  harbour  cargoes  from  many  places,  curiosities  from  faraway  coasts 
and  glimpses  of  the  author's  own  experiences. 

Marks,  Jeannette.     Gallant  little  Wales.     Houghton,    1912. 

As  a  guidebook  this  volume  will  be  found  to  contain  too  few  unpronounce- 
able place  names  to  be  adequate,  but  as  an  introduction  to  the  North  Welsh 
land,  its  customs,  its  village  life,  its  little  churches,  its  holiday  possibilities, 
its  folklore  and  romance,  its  music,  its  cottages  and  castles,  the  essays  are 
charming. 

Morley,  Christopher.     Travels  in. Philadelphia.     McKay,  1920. 

Where  else  shall  we  find  the  simplicity,  the  gayety,  the  kindly  humor, 
and  the  charm  of  this  gentle  essayist?  Who,  other  than  Morley,  could 
make  a  walk  out  Market  Street  of  interest  and  a  source  of  fun? — A.  E. 
Newton,  Introduction. 

Paget,  Violet.     The  tower  of  the  mirrors  and  other  essays  on 
the  spirit  of  places,  by  Vernon  Lee.    Lane,  1914. 

Little  essays  of  a  traveler  who  has  visited  the  less  known  comers  of  Europe 
with  the  seeing  eye  and  a  mind  saturated  with  atmosphere  and  culture, 
and  has  been  able  to  crystallize  her  exquisite  impressions  into  the  happiest 
words. — Booklist,  1914. 


30  VIEWPOINTS  IN  ESSAYS 

Scarborough,  Dorothy.    From  a  southern  porch.    Putnam,  1919. 

Why  rush  about  seeking  adventure  and  change,  when  you  can  sit  quietly 
on  a  porch  and  have  things  come  to  you?  Delightful  things,  too,  from 
graceful  poetic  fancies  and  old  negro  melodies  to  friendly  toads  and  confiding 
ghosts.  The  porch  philosophy  inspires  the  reader  with  a  longing  to  loaf 
and  observe  life  and  savor  the  passing  moments,  and  get  rested  up  before 
dying,  so  as  to  be  fresh  for  whatever  adventure  offers  itself  on  the  other  side. 
— Nation,  1920. 

Symons,  Arthur.     Cities  and  sea-coasts  and  islands.     Brentano, 
1918. 

Colorful  pictures  of  Spanish  cities  and  the  coasts  of  Cornwall,  Brittany 
and    Ireland. 

Tomlmson,  H.  M.    London  River.    Knopf,  1921. 

Eleven  essays  relating  the  lore  of  the  sailing  vessel,  its  voyages  and  tradi- 
tions, and  the  wharves  and  inns  and  dull  streets  where  its  legends  are  preserved. 

Old  junk.     Knopf,  1920. 

Sketches  of  voyages  and  travels  to  strange  parts  of  the  world:  the  African 
coast,  Tampa,  and  sand-dunes  in  a  nameless  world. 

Van  Dyke,  Henry.    Little  rivers;  a  book  of  essays  in  profitable 
idleness.     Scribner,  1903. 

Refreshing  sketches  of  rivers  in  this  country  and  abroad,  full  of  the  joys 
of  angling  and  camping  in  pleasant  woodlands. 


AMERICAN  MIND  AND  MANNERS 

This  soil  is  propitious  to  every  seed,  and  tares  must  needs 
grow  in  it,  but  why  should  it  not  also  breed  clear  thinking,  honest 
judgment  and  rational  happiness? — Santayana.  Character  and 
opinion  in  the  United  Stales. 

Bridges,  Horace  James.    On  becoming  an  American.    Marshall 
Jones,  1919. 

Reflections  of  an  Englishman  who  has  become  an  American  citizen,  show- 
ing the  contrast  between  the  spirit  of  America  and  of  Europe. 

"In  the  Old  World  you  are  shown  the  beautiful  or  stately  products  of  a 
wondrous  past;  you  cannot  withhold  your  admiration  for  the  works  pro- 
duced by  men  of  old ...  In  the  new  world  you  are  paid  the  greater 
compliment  of  being  asked  to  contribute  to  the  inspiration  of  the  future, 
to  aid  in  creating  the  miracles  of  art  and  science  that  unborn  men  shall 
wonder  at!" 

Canby,  Henry  Seidel.     Everyday  Americans.     Century,   1920. 

Thoughtful  and  lucid  appraisement  of  the  American  college  and  high 
school  graduates  and  their  part  in  reconstruction. 


VIEWPOINTS  IN  ESSAYS  31 

Eliot,  Charles  William.     American  contributions  to  civilization. 
Century,  1897. 

Nineteen  essays  and  addresses  on  social  and  political  subjects,  marked  by 
constructive  thinking  and  clear  diction. 

Holliday,  Robert  Cortes.    Men  and  books  and  cities.    Doran,  1920. 

Gossip  about  book  men  and  book  stores  and  casual  comments  on  a  journey 
from  Indianapolis  to  the  Pacific  coast. 

LoweU,  James  Russell.    Democracy  and  other  papers.    Houghton, 
1887. 

The  title  essay  is  a  clear  and  carefully  reasoned  definition  of  democracy 
as  a  political  experiment  based  on  idealism. 

Matthews,  James  Brander.    The  American  of  the  future  and  other 
essays.    Scribner,  1909. 

Fifteen  entertaining  and  sensible  essays  on  American  character,  manners, 
humor,  etc. — Best  Books,  igog. 

Nicholson,  Meredith.    The  man  in  the  street ;  papers  on  American 
topics.     Scribner,  1921. 

"Let  Main  Street  alone!"  begins  this  book  of  American  essays,  and  in 
it  Mr.  Nicholson  makes  a  plea  for  the  small  town.  Other  papers  are  on  The 
cheerful  breakfast  table,  A  church  for  honest  sinners,  The  second-rate 
man  in  politics.  How,  then,  should  Smith  vote?  The  poor  old  EngUsh  language. 

The  provincial  American  and  other  papers.    Houghton, 

1912. 

What  a  typical  citizen  of  Indiana  thinks  about  the  tired  business  man, 
best  sellers,  and  Smith  at  church. 

Perry,  BUss.     The  American  mind.     Houghton,   1912. 

Essays  at  once  logical  and  discursive,  sane  and  humorous,  based  on  study 
of  American  traits  in  American  literature. 

Repplier,  Agnes.    Americans  and  others.     Houghton,  1912. 

Fourteen  piquant  and  well-written  essays,  giving  shrewd  observations  on 
poUteness,  goodness  and  gayety,  enthusiasm  and  other  aspects  of  contem- 
porary manners. 

Counter  currents.     Houghton,  1916. 

Brilliant,  witty,  conservative  chapters  criticizing  sharply,  from  a  back- 
ground of  sound  sense,  certain  policies  and  tendencies  of  the  day  and  especially 
some  side  issues  of  the  European  war,  particularly  women  and  war,  and  the 
hyphenated  American. — Best  Books,  igi6. 

Roosevelt,  Theodore.     American  ideals  and  other  essays,  social 
and  political.     Putnain,  1897. 

Discusses  practical  politics  with  common  sense  and  a  healthy  idealism. 


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32  VIEWPOINTS  IN  ESSAYS 

Santayana,  George.  Character  and  opinion  in  the  United  States 
with  reminiscences  of  William  James  and  Josiah  Royce  and 
academic  life  in  America.     Scribner,  1920. 

Comments  on  the  American  mind  before  the  war  as  it  appeared  to  a  keen 
observer. 

Sedgwick,  Henry  Dwight.  The  new  American  type,  and  other 
essays.    Houghton,  1902. 

Twelve  popular  essays,  written  with  humor  and  critical  acumen,  on  various 
aspects  of  literature,  art  and  education. 


SCHOOLS  AND  SOCIETY 

What  is  this  supreme  symbol  that  educational  establishments 
like  to  use  on  their  stationery?  It  is  one  hand  holding  a  torch 
and  another  hand  open  to  receive  it.  If  it  means  anything,  it 
means  that  something  illuminative  is  passing,  or  can  be  passed, 
from  one  human  being  to  another — from  teacher  to  scholar. 
— Yeomans.     Shackled  youth. 

Aydelotte,  Frank.    The  Oxford  stamp  and  other  essays.    Oxford 
university  press,  1917. 

Pertinent  comparisons  of  college  life  and  teaching  in  Oxford  and  American 
universities,  showing  what  a  Rhodes  scholar  brought  to  his  teaching:  the  idea 
of  a  community  of  young  men,  keen,  open-hearted,  sympathetic  and  observant, 
to  whom  discussion  and  study  became  as  natural  as  sport. 

Beith,  John  Hay.     The  lighter  side  of  school  life,  by  Ian  Hay. 
Foulis,  1919. 

Amusing  sketches  of  boys  and  masters  in  English  schools,  written  with  a 
whimsical  understanding  of  the  compensations  that  come  to  teachers. 

Canby,  Henry  Seidel.    College  sons  and  college  fathers.    Harpers, 
1915. 

The  first  five  essays  deal  with  the  undergraduate  as  a  broad-minded  pro- 
fessor sees  him;  the  other  five  discuss  problems  of  culture  and  democracy 
the  college  must  meet. 

Crothers,  Samuel  McChord.    The  dame  school  of  experience,  and 
other  papers.    Houghton,  1920. 

The  teacher's  dilemma.  The  perils  of  the  literate.  Education  in  pursuit 
of  Henry  Adams,  and  related  topics  are  discussed  with  humor  and  penetrating 
insight. 

Dewey,  John.     The  school  and  society.     Rev.  ed.     University 
of  Chicago  press,  [cl915]. 

Constructive  papers  on  the  part  played  by  the  school  in  the  daily  life  of 
children. 


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Dunn,  Mrs.  Martha  (Baker).    Cicero  in  Maine,  and  other  essays. 
Houghton,  1905. 

Delightful  papers,  showing  how  Cicero  and  the  .^neid  lived  for  boys 
and  girls  in  Maine. 

Gayley,  Charles  Mills.     Idols  of  education.     Doubleday,  1910. 

Crisp  and  provocative  essays,  applying  Bacon's  classification  of  accepted 
traditions  to  educational  fetishes. 

Henderson,  Charles  Hanford.     Education  and  the  larger  life. 
Houghton,  1902. 

Sane  and  carefully-worked-out  suggestions  for  furthering  the  progress 
of  civilization  through  education. 

Huxley,  Thomas  Henry.    Science  and  education.    Appleton,  1901. 
A  scientist's  lucid  exposition  of  the  value  of  biology  in  education. 

James,  William.    Talks  to  teachers  on  psychology  and  to  students 
on  some  of  life's  ideals.     Holt,  1914. 

Includes  three  delightful  essays  on  The  gospel  of  relaxation,  A  certain 
blindness  in  human  beings.  What  makes  a  life  significant,  as  well  as  the  con- 
cise psychological  papers. 

Jordan,  David  Starr.     The  voice  of  the  scholar.     Elder,  1903. 

Inspiring  papers  on  different  aspects  of  university  education. 

Newman,  John  Henry,  Cardinal.    The  idea  of  a  university  defined 
and  illustrated.     Longmans,  1902. 

Of  all  the  books  in  these  hundred  years  there  is  perhaps  none  you  can  more 
profitably  thumb  and  ponder  than  this  volume  .  .  .  The  book  is 
so  wise — so  eminently  wise — as  to  deserve  being  bound  by  the  young  student 
of  literature  for  a  frontlet  on  his  brow  and  a  talisman  on  his  writing  wrist. 
— Quiller-Couch.     On  the  art  of  writing. 

Palmer,  George  Herbert.     The  teacher.     Houghton,   1908. 

Of  the  twelve  essays  by  Professor  Palmer,  The  ideal  teacher  and  The 
glory  of  the  imperfect,  lead  in  interest  and  inspiration.  Four  papers  by 
Mrs.  Palmer  dealing  with  the  education  of  woman  are  included. 

Pearson,  Francis  Bail.     Reveries  of  a  schoolmaster.     Scribner, 
1917. 

Kindly  papers  on  the  lighter  side  of  teaching. 

Sharp,  Dallas  Lore.     Patrons  of  democracy.     Atlantic  monthly 
press,  1920. 

Shows  the  need  for  common  schools  open  to  everyone,  rather  than  private 
schools,  in  the  development  of  democracy. 


34  VIEWPOINTS  IN  ESSAYS 

Yeomans,  Edward.     Shackled  youth.     Atlantic  monthly  press, 
1921. 

vSound  and  stimulating  ideas  of  a  Chicago  manufacturer  on  the  teaching 
of  geography,  history  and  literature,  and  other  educational  questions. 


ART 

So  long  as  men  care  for  art  they  will  go  on  talking  about  it,  as 
they  have  been  talking  about  it  since  art  began,  for  there  is  no 
greater  happiness  than  that  which  is  to  be  found  in  disinterested 
talk  about  the  things  of  the  mind. — Cortissoz.  A  rt  and  commonsense. 

Arts  and  crafts  exhibition  society,  London.  Arts  and  crafts 
essays,  by  members  of  the  society;  with  preface  by  William 
Morris.     Longmans,  1899. 

Essays  by  well-known  craftsmen  on  design  and  handicraft,  textiles,  wall- 
paper, furniture,  printing  and  other  topics,  written  to  call  attention  to  "that 
really  most  important  side  of  art,  the  decoration  of  utilities  by  furnishing 
them  with  genuine  artistic  finish." 

Babbitt,  Irving.  The  new  Laokoon;  an  essay  on  the  confusion 
of  the  arts.     Houghton,  1910. 

Critical  study  which  defines  the  classic,  pseudo-classic  and  romantic  move- 
ments in  art,  literature  and  music. 

Cortissoz,  RoyaL     Art  and  com^mon  sense.     Scribner,  1913. 

Advocates  the  use  of  common  sense,  good  judgment  and  a  sense  of  humor 
in  criticism  of  art  and  applies  these  qualities  in  the  discussion  of  Whistler, 
Sargent,  Spanish  art,  the  post-impressionists  and  other  subjects. 

Cox,  Kenyon.  Artist  and  public,  and  other  essays  on  art  subjects. 
Scribner,  1911. 

Studies  of  the  work  of  Millet,  Raphael,  St.  Gaudens  and  other  American 
artists,  showing  the  relationship  of  each  artist  to  his  time. 

The  classic  point  of  view.     Scribner,  1911. 

Six  papers,  stressing  the  value  of  high  standards  in  art,  characterized  by 
nobility  and  restraint,  rather  than  by  novelty. 

Cram,  Ralph  Adams.     The  ministry  of  art.     Houghton,   1914. 

Essays  of  a  mediaevalist,  revealing  the  ways  in  which  "abstract  art  may 
do  more  than  make  life  beautiful,  in  that  it  can  act  symbolically,  tropically, 
sacramentally,  and  so  become  the  supreme  means  of  expressing,  and  of  in- 
citing and  exalting  those  emotions  which  transcend  experience." 

Hind,  Charles  Lewis.    Art  and  I.    Lane,  1921. 

"I  have  shaped  the  essays  into  groups — The  art  of  to-day,  The  art  of  to- 
morrow, The  art  of  yesterday,  Art  and  Mr.  X.    I  do  believe  that  according 


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to  my  strength  and  vision,  I  have  ranged  the  field  of  art  tolerably  com- 
l)rehensively;  and  if  there  be  those  who  object  to  the  title  of  the  book, — all 
I  can  say  in  defence  is — well,  that  describes  it.  It  is  my  reaction  to  our 
Lady  Art.  I  love  her.  I  have  spent  much  of  my  life  trying  to  understand 
and  appreciate  her,  and  all  I  have  written  here  about  my  adventures  is  just 
a  true  tale." 

Huneker,  James.     Promenades  of  an  impressionist.     Scribner, 
1910. 

Vivid  sketches  of  the  personal  preferences  of  the  author,  ranging  in  subject 
from  Velasquez  and  Botticelli  to  Cezanne. 

McDowall,  Arthur.    Realism,  a  study  in  art  and  thought.     Con- 
stable, 1918. 

An  attempt  to  discover  the  theory  of  realism  in  art  and  its  connection — 
if  it  has  any — with  realism  in  thinking. 

Mather,  Frank  Jewett,  jr.   Estimates  in  art.     Scribner,  1916. 

Readable  comments  by  a  well-known  critic  of  catholic  tastes,  on  El  Greco, 
Goya,  Sorolla,  Vermeer,  and  Chinese  and  Japanese  painting. 

Morris,  William.     Hopes  and  fears  for  art.     Longmans,   1901. 

Describes  with  characteristic  enthusiasm  aspects  of  arts  and  crafts  made 
by  the  people  and  for  the  people,  satisfying  to  the  makers  and  the  users. 

Phillips,  Duncan.  The  enchantment  of  art  as  part  of  the  enchant- 
ment of  experience.    Lane,  1914. 

Personal   and   persuasive   appreciations   of   painting,    concerned    chiefly 
with  impressionism. 

Ruskin,   John.      Modem   painters.      Allen,    1901.      (Brantwood 
edition) . 

Comments  on  life  and  art,   characterized  by  intellectual  independence, 
spiritual  insight  and  colorful  phrasing. 

Tolstoi,  Lyof  Nikolaevich,  graf.     What  is  art?     Tr.  from  the 
Russian  by  A.  Maude.     Crowell,  1898. 

Presents  the  author's  convictions  regarding  the  mission  of  art  in  developing 
the  brotherhood  of  man. 

Van  Dyke,  John  Charles.    What  is  art?    Scribner,  1910. 

Studies  in  the  technique  and  criticism  of  painting,  from  the  point  of  view 
of  an  artist  who  recognizes  art  as  an  expression  of  life. 

Whistler,  James  McNeill.  The  gentle  art  of  making  enemies, 
as  pleasingly  exemplified  in  many  instances,  wherein  the 
serious  ones  of  this  earth,  carefully  exasperated,  have  been 
prettily  spurred  on  to  unseemliness  and  indiscretion,  while 
overcome  by  an  undue  sense  of  right.  Heinemann,  1890. 
Comment  is  superfluous. 


36  VIEWPOINTS  IN  ESSAYS 

Woodbury,  Charles  Herbert.    Painting  and  the  personal  equation. 
Houghton,  1919. 

One  may  envy  the  painting  classes  that  heard  such  talks.  His  counsels 
abound  in  mother  wit  and  are  blessedly  free  from  the  jargon  of  the  studios. 
He  advocates  a  modified  naturalism. — Weekly  Review,  ig20. 


MUSIC 

People  are  not  bom  with  a  taste  for  good  music.  Neither  do 
they  achieve  it  suddenly,  nor  have  it  thrust  upon  them.  No. 
The  well-rounded  musical  amateur  is  the  product  of  a  long  evolu- 
tion. The  lover  of  good  music  has  developed  his  love  only  by 
passing  through  every  successive  stage  of  musical  enthusiasm 
from  supreme  delight  in  the  rattle  solo  to  supreme  delight  in,  say, 
the  Choral  symphony. — Schaufiler.     Musical  amateur. 

Gilman,  Lawrence.     Nature  in  music  and  other  studies  in  the 
tone  poetry  of  today.    Lane,  1914. 

Graceful  sympathetic  studies,  about  program  music,  opera  in  English,  and 
other  recent  phases  of  music. 

Huneker,  James.    Overtones ;  a  book  of  temperaments.    Scribner, 
1906. 

Brilliantly  written  comments  on  Strauss,  Parsifal,  Verdi,  Balzac,  Flaubert, 
Nietzsche  and  Turgenieff,  with  plangent  interludes  on  literary  men  who 
loved  music. 

Mason,  Daniel  Gregory.    Contemporary  composers.    Macmillan, 
1918. 

Six  interesting  and  authoritative  essays:  Democracy  and  music;  Richard 
Strauss;  Sir  Edward  Elgar;  Claude  Debussy;  Vincent  d'Indy;  Music  in 
America.  Completes  the  series  of  great  creative  musicians  begun  in 
Beethoven  and  his  forerunners  and  continued  in  The  romantic  composers  and 
From  Grieg  to  Brahms. — Best  Books,  iqi8. 

Newman,  Ernest.    A  musical  motley.    Lane,  1919. 

Diverting  essays  that  enliven  the  tasks  of  a  musical  critic,  on  such  subjects 
as  Putting  the  classics  in  their  place,  Nonsense  music.  Quotation  in  music. 

RoUand,  Romain.     Musicians  of  today;  tr.  by  Mary  Blaiklock. 
Holt,  1914. 

Well-written  and  authoritative  papers  chiefly  on  French  and  German 
music.  In  Some  musicians  of  former  days  (1915),  the  author  discusses  the 
first  operas,  Lully  Gluck,  Gretry  and  Mozart. 

Rosenfeld,  Paul.    Musical  portraits.    Harcourt,  1920. 

Illuminating  interpretations  of  the  work  of  twenty  modem  composers. 


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Schauffler,  Robert  Haven.     The  musical  amateur.     Houghton, 
1911. 

This  book  champions  the  cause  of  musical  enthusiasm.  It  holds  that 
the  true  listener  plays  almost  as  real  and  vital  a  part  in  the  making  of  music 
as  the  composer  or  the  performer,  and  it  points  the  way  by  which  everyone 
may  become  a  "creative"  listener  and  an  infectious  source  of  "creative" 
listening. — Preface. 

Sonneck,   Oscar   George  Theodore.     Suum   cuique;   essays  in 
music.     Schirmer,  1916. 

The  first  paper  is  a  plea  for  freedom  from  tradition  in  composition;  the 
others  discuss  aspects  of  music  in  America. 

Surette,  Thomas  Whitney.    Music  and  life;  a  study  of  the  rela- 
tions between  ourselves  and  music.     Houghton,   1917. 

Discusses  what  music  is,  music  for  children,  public  school  music,  community 
music,  the  opera  and  the  symphony,  in  the  hope  of  making  music  intelligible 
to  the  hearer. 

Van  Vechten,  Carl.    Music  and  bad  manners.    Knopf,  1916. 

In  addition  to  the  title  essay,  contains  five  amusing  and  authoritative 
studies  of  modem  tendencies  in  music. 


ETERNAL  VERITIES 

Every  day  that  is  bom  into  the  world  comes  like  a  burst  of 
music,  and  sings  itself  all  the  day  through,  and  thou  shalt  make 
of  it  a  dance,  a  dirge  or  a  life  march,  as  thou  wilt. — Carlyle. 

Burroughs,  John.     Accepting  the  universe.     Houghton,    1920. 

It  is  reported  of  Margaret  Fuller  that  she  said  she  accepted  the  universe. 
"Gad,  she'd  better",  retorted  Carlyle.  From  his  own  experience  John 
Burroughs  has  formulated  his  credo:  "On  the  whole  and  in  the  long  run,  as 
I  am  never  tired  of  asserting,  Nature  is  good.  The  universe  has  not  mis- 
carried.    The  celestial  laws  do  not  need  to  be  worked  over  and  rectified." 

Carlyle,  Thomas.    Sartor  resartus;  the  life  and  opinions  of  Herr 
Teufelsdrockh.     Scribner,  1897.     (Centenary  ed.) 

In  the  guise  of  a  review  of  a  German  treatise  on  dress,  Carlyle  expresses 
his  own  ideas  of  the  meaning  of  social  and  religious  conventions.  Chaotic, 
explosive,  dynamic,  the  book  shows  the  use  of  visible  things  as  the  clothing 
of  the  spirit  and  the  ultimate  triumph  of  spiritual  values. 

Cram,  Ralph  Adams.    Gold,  frankincense  and  myrrh.    Jones,  1919. 

Gold  is  the  pure,  imperishable  quality  of  the  monastic  ideal,  frankincense 
the  supreme  act  of  worship  through  the  blessed  sacrament,  myrrh  the  saving 
grace  quaUty  of  a  right  philosophy  of  life  .  .  .  the  three  gifts  that 
must  be  offered  by  a  world  once  more  led  to  worship  and  fall  down  before 
the  God  so  long  and  so  lightly  denied. — Preface. 


38  VIEWPOINTS  IN  ESSAYS 

Emerson,  Ralph  Waldo.    Essays.    Houghton,  1889.    2  v. 

Compensation,  spiritual  laws,  love,  friendship  and  other  noble  subjects 
are  discussed  with  serene  faith  and  certainty  of  phrase. 

Huxley,  Thomas  Hemy.     Lay  sermons.     Appleton. 

Contains  the  famous  essay  On  a  piece  of  chalk,  which  has  been  called  a 
perfect  handling  of  a  trivial  subject  so  as  to  make  it  a  window  into  the  infinite. 

Russell,  George  William.    The  candle  of  vision,    by   M.     Mac- 
millan,  1918. 

Mystical  experiences  of  the  Celtic  poet. 

There  are  also  windows  in  the  soul  through  which  can  be  seen  images 
created  not  by  human  but  by  divine  imagination  ...  I  have  tried 
to  discriminate  between  that  which  was  self-begotten  fantasy  and  that  which 
came  from  a  higher  sphere. — Preface. 

Stevenson,  Robert  Louis.   Across  the  plains,  with  other  memories 
and  essays.     Scribner,  1903. 

One  of  the  essays  is  the  magnificent  Christmas  sermon,  one  of  the  finest 
of  modem  essays,  rich  in  wisdom,  noble  in  feeling,  transparent  in  sincerity. 
— Walker.  English  essays. 


EVERYDAY  ETHICS 

Life  is  a  struggle,  but  not  a  warfare;  it  is  a  day's  labor;  but 
labor  on  God's  earth  under  the  sun  and  stars  with  other  laborers, 
where  we  may  think  and  sing  and  rejoice  as  we  work. — Burroughs. 

Bennett,  Arnold.     How  to  live  on  twenty-four  hours  a  day. 
Doran,  1910. 

Readable  plea  for  the  employment  of  spare  moments  in  self-improvement, 
either  by  reading  or  reflection. 

Cabot,  Richard  Clarke.     What  men  live  by.     Houghton,  1914. 

The  value  and  significance  of  work,  play,  love  and  worship,  the  four  elements 
which  the  author  believes  are  essential  for  normal  living. 

Dawson,  William  James.     The  book  of  courage.     Revell,  1911. 

Sympathetic  inspiring  essays  on  the  cultivation  of  a  brave  spirit  in  meeting 
the  vicissitudes  of  life — failure,  lost  friendships,  sudden  tragedy,  leaving 
famihar  things,  ill-health,  bereavement,  old  age. — Best  Books,  igii. 

Erskine,  John.    The  moral  obligation  to  be  intelligent.    Duffield, 
1915. 

When  the  wise  man  brings  his  list  of  our  genuine  admirations,  will  intel- 
ligence be  one  of  them? 


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Keller,  Helen.    Optimism;  an  essay.    Crowell,  1903. 

Three  brief  chapters  embodying  the  hopeful  philosophy  of  the  brave  young 
author. — Best  Books,  ipoj. 

Park,  John  Edgar.     The  bad  results  of  good  habits  and  other 
lapses.     Houghton,  1920. 
Genial  essays  that  teach  in  unorthodox  ways  simple  methods  of  being 
happy  and  making  others  so. 

Wilson,  Woodrow.    When  a  man  comes  to  himself.    Harper,  1915. 

Expresses  the  belief  that  after  a  man  comes  to  himself  he  knows  "what 
his  powers  mean,  what  spiritual  air  they  breathe,  what  ardors  of  service 
clear  them  of  lethargy,  relieve  them  of  all  sense  of  effort,  put  them  at  their 
best." 

WRITING 

As  literature  is  an  art  and  therefore  not  to  be  pondered  only, 
but  practised,  so  ours  is  a  living  language  and  therefore  to  be 
kept  alive,  supple,  active  in  all  honorable  use.  —  Quill er-Couch. 
On  the  art  of  writing. 

Colby,    Frank    Moore.      Constrained    attitudes.      Dodd,    1910. 
Literary  platitudes  and  follies,  journalism,  the  self-complacent  and  literal- 
minded,  and  other  things  criticizable  are  pricked  by  the  author's  good-natured 
satire  in  eleven  witty,  cleverly  phrased  essays. — Best  Books,  ipio. 

Eastman,  Max.     Journalism  versus  art.     Knopf,  1916. 

An  able  and  often  amusing  indictment  of  the  "good  bad  stuff,"  pictorial 
and  literary,  which  fills  the  pages  of  the  current  cheap  American  magazines. 
His  arguments  against  free  verse  and  spelling  reforms  are  also  ingenious  and 
thought  provoking. 

Eliot,  Thomas  Steams.    The  sacred  wood;  essays  on  poetry  and 
criticism.     Methuen,  1920. 
A  poet's  theories  of  the  function  of  criticism  as  an  exact  science. 

Matthews,  James  Brander.    Essays  on  English.    Scribner,  1921. 

Pleasant  papers,  showing  the  English  language  in  this  country  and  abroad 
in  process  of  growth. 

Overton,  Grant  Morton.    Why  authors  go  wrong.    Moffat,  1919. 

Eight  gay  little  talks  about  authors,  publishers,  reviewers,  and  teachers 
of  English. 

Quiller-Couch,   Sir  Arthur   Thomas.      On   the   art   of  writing. 
Putnam,  1916. 
Brilliant  essays  showing  that  literature  is  not  a  mere  science  to  be  studied, 
but  an  art  to  be  practised.     The  interlude  On  jargon  is  commended  to  all 
writers. 


40  VIEWPOINTS  IN  ESSAYS 

READING 

I  sometimes  fear  that  reading,  in  the  old-fashioned  sense,  may- 
become  a  lost  art.  The  habit  of  resorting  to  the  printed  page 
for  information  is  an  excellent  one,  but  it  is  not  what  I  have  in 
mind.  A  person  wants  something  and  knows  where  to  get  it. 
He  goes  to  a  book  just  as  he  goes  to  a  department  store.  Knowl- 
edge is  a  commodity  done  up  in  a  neat  parcel.  Literature,  properly 
so  called,  is  quite  different  from  this,  and  literary  values  inhere 
not  in  things  or  even  ideas,  but  in  persons.  There  are  some  rare 
spirits  that  have  imparted  themselves  to  their  words.  The  book 
then  becomes  a  person,  and  reading  comes  to  be  a  kind  of  con- 
versation.— Crothers.     Gentle  reader. 

Counsel  upon  the  reading  of  books.     Houghton,  1900. 

Wise  counsel  by  seven  authors:  A  preface  on  reading  and  books  by  Henry 
Van  Dyke;  History  by  H.  Morse  Stephens;  Memoirs  and  biographies  by 
Agnes  Repplier;  Sociology,  economics  and  politics  by  Arthur  T.  Hadley; 
The  study  of  fiction  by  Brander  Matthews;  Poetry  by  Bliss  Perry;  Essay 
and  criticism  by  Hamilton  Wright  Mabie. 

Crothers,  Samuel  McChord.    The  gentle  reader  and  other  essays. 
Houghton,  1903. 

Pleasant  chats  on  the  enjoyment  of  poetry,  the  honorable  points  of 
ignorance,  the  obligation  of  historians  to  be  readable  and  other  topics. 
Written  for  the  Gentle  Reader  rather  than  for  the  Modem  Intelligent  Read- 
ing Public. 

Harrison,  Frederic.    Choice  of  books.    Macmillan,  1886. 

A  plea  for  the  reading  of  good  books,  for  as  Harrison  says,  we  need  to  be 
reminded  every  day  how  many  are  the  books  of  inimitable  glory  which  with 
all  our  eagerness  after  reading  we  have  never  taken  into  our  hands. 

Jenkins,  MacGregor.     The  reading  public.     Houghton,  1914. 

Brief,  witty,  unpretentious  discussion  of  types  of  magazine  readers  and 
contributors,  by  the  publisher  of  the  Atlantic  Monthly. — Best  Books,  1914. 

Kerfoot,  John  Barrett.    How  to  read.     Houghton,  191G. 

The  literary  critic  of  Life  shows  the  average  "man  in  the  street"  that 
reading  is  a  creative  process. 

Larned,  Josephus  Nelson.    Books,  culture  and  character.    Hough- 
ton, 1906. 

Pleasantly  written  suggestions  concerning  reading  and  the  choice  of 
books. 

Lee,  Gerald  Stanley.     The  lost  art  of  reading.     Putnam,  1902. 

Clever  and  erratic  criticisms  of  hasty  methods  of  reading  and  thinking. 
Urges  the  need  for  imagination,  for  entrance  examinations  in  joy  and  for  old  - 
fashioned  librarians. 


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Quiller-Couch,   Sir  Arthur  Thomas.     On   the   art   of  reading. 
Putnam,  1920. 

Vivacious  talks  to  Cambridge  students  on  the  delights  of  reading  and  the 
importance  of  children's  books.  Reading  the  Bible  is  a  plea  for  treatment 
of  the  Bible  as  literature. 


Smith,    Charles   Alphonso.     What   can   literature   do  for   me? 
Doubleday,  1913. 

On  the  service  of  books  in  widening  the  reader's  field  of  vision  and  showing 
him  the  glory  of  the  commonplace. 


THE  BOOKSHELF 

Paradise  in  the  world  to  come  is  uncertain,  but  there  is  indeed 
a  heaven  on  this  earth,  a  heaven  which  we  inhabit  when  we 
read  a  new  book. — Roger  Mifflin  in  The  haunted  bookshop. 

Arnold,  Matthew.    Essays  in  criticism.    Macmillan,  1902.    2  v. 
(Eversley  series). 

In  these  papers  on  different  writers  Arnold  displays  the  tolerant  wisdom, 
clarity  of  thought  and  expression  and  ardent  sincerity  that  he  demands 
in  his  essay  on  the  fimctions  of  criticism. 

Bagehot,  Walter.     Literary  studies.     Longmans,  1891.     2  v. 

Sane  and  vigorous  criticism  of  the  first  Edinburgh  reviewers.  Hartley 
Coleridge,  Shelley,  Shakespeare  and  other  writers,  characterized  by  humor 
and  keen  insight. 

Beers,  Hemy  Augustus.    The  Connecticut  wits  and  other  essays. 
Yale  university  press,  1920. 

He  unearths  Joel  Barlow  and  those  other  neglected  spirits  of  old  Con- 
necticut; and  then  allows  his  fancy  to  range  over  such  themes  as  the  poetry 
of  the  cavaliers,  Shakespeare's  contemporaries,  Thackeray  and  Sheridan. 
In  manner  these  essays  are  scholarly,  informative  and  suavely  graceful. 
— Freeman,  igzo. 

Birrell,  Augustine.    Obiter  dicta.    Scribner,  1904.    2  v. 

Discriminating  criticism  and  urbane  humor  characterize  these  essays  as 
well  as  his  other  works:  Essays  about  men,  women  and,  books  (1894),  Essays 
and  addresses  (1901),  Res  judicatae  (1892). 

In  the  name  of  the  Bodleian,  and  other  essays.    Scribner, 


1905. 

Bookworms,  Confirmed  readers,  First  editions,  Gossip  in  a  library.  Librar- 
ians at  play.  Old  pleasure  gardens.  Old  booksellers  are  the  titles  of  some  of 
the  other  urbane  and  sparkling  essays. 


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Boyd,  Ernest  Augustus.    Appreciations  and  depreciations.    Lane, 
[cl917]. 
Six  pleasantly  informal  essays  on  Irish  authors. 

Bradford,  Gamaliel.    A  naturalist  of  souls.    Dodd,  1917. 

The  psychographic  method,  that  is,  the  use  of  significant  detail  arranged 
to  produce  a  "crescendo"  effect  instead  of  the  chronologic  biographical 
method,  is  employed  in  these  essays  on  Donne,  Trollope,  Dumas,  Leopardi, 
Ovid,  Pliny,  Francis  de  Sales. 

Chapman,  Robert  William.     Portrait  of  a  scholar,  and  other 
essays  written  in  Macedonia,  1916-1918.    Oxford  press,  1921. 

No  echo  of  war  disturbs  these  bookish  pleasures  which  carried  the  author 
through  the  Macedonian  campaign.  Shaw's  Pygmalion  suggests  an  excellent 
paper  on  spelling  reform,  and  the  essays  on  rhyme,  the  art  of  quotation, 
Johnson  in  Scotland,  and  the  textual  criticism  of  English  classics  abound 
in  references  which  make  it  difficult  to  imagine  that  they  were  written  far 
from  the  sources  to  which  they  refer.  No  reader  can  fail  to  be  affected  by 
their  tone  of  mellow  learning  and  captured  by  their  unaffected  style. — 
Literary  review,  igsi. 

Chesterton,  Gilbert  Keith.    Heretics.    Lane,  1905. 

Brilliant  comments  on  the  non-conformist  ideas  of  Shaw,  Wells,  George 
Moore,  Celts  and  Celtophiles,  Whistler  and  slum  novelists.  Orthodoxy 
(1908)  was  written  in  reply  to  critics  of  this  book. 

Varied  types.     Dodd,  1903. 

Having  discovered  that  it  is  far  more  daring  and  original  to  defend  con- 
ventionality than  to  defend  a  cart-load  of  revolutions,  Chesterton's  papers 
on  Charlotte  Bronte,  Morris,  Pope,  Rostand,  Alfred  the  Great,  Tennyson 
and  other  writers  show  his  characteristic  love  of  paradox  and  vivid  phrasing. 

Victorian  age  in  literature.     Holt,   1913.     (Home  uni- 
versity library). 

Refreshingly  original  interpretation  of  significance  of  the  Victorian  age 
as  a  whole  with  clever  critical  estimates  of  its  prominent  authors.  Style 
is  trenchant,  sparkling  and  wholly  pleasing. — Best  Books,  1913. 

Coleridge,  Samuel  Taylor.    Biographia  literaria.    Button,  1908. 

(Everyman's  library). 

Coleridge,  a  catholic  mind,  with  a  hunger  for  ideas;  with  eyes  looking 
before  and  after  to  the  highest  bards  and  sages,  and  who  wrote  and  spoke 
the  only  high  criticism  in  his  time,  is  one  of  those  who  saves  England  from 
the  reproach  of  no  longer  possessing  the  capacity  to  appreciate  what  rarest 
wit  the  island  has  yielded. — Emerson.     English  traits. 

Essays  and  lectures  on  Shakespeare  and  some  other 

old   poets   and   dramatists.      Button,    1909.      (Everyman's 
library) . 

He  made  the  first  serious  attempt  to  grasp  the  totality  of  Shakespeare's 
work  and  to  trace  out  the  inner  history  of  his  mind  through  the  chronological 
chaos  in  which  the  dramas  were  still  involved. — Herford.    Age  of  Wordsworth. 


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Cook,  Sir  Edward  Tyas.    Literary  recreations.    Macmillan,  1918. 

Delightfully  phrased  essays  of  a  great  biographer  including  among  others, 
The  art  of  biography,  The  art  of  indexing,  A  study  in  superlatives  (a  com- 
parison of  authors'  lists  of  best  books).  More  literary  recreations  by  the 
same  author,  (1919),  contains  three  charming  classical  studies  on  Pliny's 
letters,  the  classics  in  daily  life  and  the  Greek  anthology.  Other  essays 
areonTravellingcompanions,Theart  of  editing.  The  changes  and  corruptions 
of  words  and  Single  poem  poets. 

Courtney,  W.  L.     Old  saws  and  modem  instances.     Chapman, 
1918. 

Critical  studies  of  modern  literature  contrasted  with  ancient  examples, 
including  comparisons  of  Brieux  with  Euripides,  and  Hardy's  Dynasts  with 
Aeschylus. 

Dobson,  Austin.     Eighteenth  century  vignettes.     Chatto,  1896. 
3  V.     (St.  Martin's  Hbrary). 

Characteristic  little  pictures  of  Swift,  Johnson,  Dodsley,  Richardson, 
and  other  worthies. 


Old  Kensington  palace,  and  other  papers.    Stokes,  1910. 

Essays  distinguished  for  their  literary  quality  and  for  their  keen  sympathy 
with  little  known  persons  of  the  eighteenth  century. 


Duclaux,  Agnes  Mary  Frances  (Robinson).     Twentieth  century 
writers  (reviews  and  reminiscences).     Scribner,  1920. 

Brilliant  and  scholarly  discussion  of  sixteen  recent  French  writers  with 
chapters  on  the  pastoral  novel  and  the  novel  of  childhood. 


Fitch,  George  Hamlin.    Comfort  found  in  good  old  books.    Elder, 
1911. 

Appreciative  essays  on  books  that  made  life  possible  to  the  author  after 
the  death  of  his  only  son. 

Follett,  Helen  Thomas  and  FoUett,  Wilson.     Some  modem  nov- 
elists.    Holt,  1918. 

Illuminating  and  readable  criticisms  of  Meredith,  James  and  their  con- 
temporaries, as  well  as  the  younger  generation,  W.  B.  Maxwell,  Theodore 
Dreiser  and  Ethel  Sidgwick,  based  on  the  theory  that  "the  distinctive  char- 
acteristic of  modern  fiction  is  its  intensification  of  the  feeling  of  human  soli- 
darity." 

Freeman,  John.    The  modems.    Crowell,  1917. 

Sane  and  thoughtful  essays  on  Shaw,  Wells,  Hardy,  Maeterlinck,  Henry 
James,  Conrad,  Patmore,  Francis  Thompson,  Robert  Bridges,  written  with 
sympathy  and  a  knowledge  of  general  Enghsh  literature. 


44  VIEWPOINTS  IN  ESSAYS 

Garnett,  Richard.    Essays  of  an  ex-librarian.    Heinemann,  1901. 

Bears  the  imprint  of  the  writers'  personality  as  a  steward  and  student  of 
books  interested  in  those  nice  minor  questions  which  arise  among  professed 
bookmen.  The  work  of  one  curious  in  the  odd  corners  and  quiet  byways  of 
literature. — Pittsburgh  Catalog,  igo2-6. 

George,  Walter  Lionel.     Literary  chapters.     Little,  1918. 

Provocative  criticisms  of  contemporary  novels,  novel-writing  and  readers, 
entertaining  and  typical  of  the  modem  ironic  attitude  toward  life. 

Goldring,  Douglas.     Reputations,  essays  in  criticism.     Seltzer, 
1920. 

Scores  H.  G.  Wells,  Hugh  Walpole,  and  Compton  Mackenzie  and  condemns 
clever  novels  for  their  futility. 

Gosse,  Edmund  William.     Books  on  the  table.    Scribner,  1921. 

A  sheaf  of  recent  essays  by  the  distinguished  critic,  including  The  last 
years  of  Disraeli,  Boythorn  in  the  flesh.  Autobiography  and  Mrs.  Asquith 
and  other  penetrating  papers. 

Some  diversions  of  a  man  of  letters.     Scribner,   1919. 

Illuminating  discussion  of  fluctuations  of  literary  taste,  with  comments 
on  some  of  the  figures  in  the  history  of  English  literature  which  have  suffered 
from  the  changes  of  fortune  and  the  instability  of  taste. 

Three  French  moralists.     Scribner,  1918. 

The  object  of  these  essays  is  to  trace  back  to  some  of  its  sources  the  spirit 
of  gallantry  which  inspired  the  young  French  officers  in  the  beginning  of  the 
war.  The  author  in  searching  for  the  germ  of  this  exalted  sentiment  has 
chosen  three  seventeenth  century  moraUsts  who  inculcated  their  sentiments 
by  means  of  the  maxim:  La  Rochefoucauld,  La  Bruyere  and  Vauvenargues. 
The  last  essay.  The  gallantry  of  France,  is  a  roll  call  of  the  young  soldier- 
authors  who  died  on  the  field  of  honor,  Lintier,  Allard-Meeus,  Drouet,  Nolly, 
seeking  in  each  the  present  day  expression  of  the  ancient  high  chivalry  and 
spiritual  dedication  of  France. — Open  Shelf,  IQIQ. 

Hazlitt,  William.     Lectures  on  the  English  comic  writers,  with 
miscellaneous  essays.     Button,   1910.     (Everyman's  library). 

It  is  impossible  to  read  them  without  catching  something  of  the  ardour 
of  his  own  enthusiasm,  and  it  says  much  for  the  soundness  of  his  taste  and 
judgment  that  the  great  majority  of  the  criticisms  emerged  undistorted  from 
the  glowing  crucible  of  his  thought. — Lobban.     English  essays. 

Lectures  on  the  Enghsh  poets;  and  the  spirit  of  the  age. 

Button,  1910.     (Everyman's  library). 

Great  as  Hazlitt  was  as  a  miscellaneous  and  Montaignesque  essayist,  he 
was  greater  as  a  literary  critic.  The  four  great  collections  of  his  criticism, 
The    characters    of   Shakespeare,    The    Elizabethan  dramatists,    The  English 


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poets  and  The  English  comic  writers,  with  not  a  few  scattered  things  in 
his  other  writings,  make  what  is  on  the  whole  the  best  body  of  criticism  by 
a  single  writer  in  English  on  English.  He  is  the  critics'  critic  as  Spenser 
is  the  poets'  poet. 

Heam,   Lafcadio.     Interpretations   of   literature,   selected   and 

edited  with  an  introduction  by  John  Erskine.    Dodd,  1915. 

2v. 

Illuminating  lectures  to  Japanese  students,  preserved  in  their  class  notes, 

and  published  under   the    titles    Interpretations  of  literature.  Appreciations 

of  poetry  and  Life  and  literature.     They  reveal  literature  as  the  best  expression 

of  intimate  experiences  and  the  art  of  reading  or  of  criticism  as  the  art  of 

discrimination  among  experiences. 

Higginson,  Thomas  Wentworth.  Carlyle's  laugh  and  other  sur- 
prises.   Houghton,  1909. 

Illuminating  sketches  of  literary  friends  and  contemporaries — Thoreau, 
Bancroft,  Stedman,  Emily  Dickinson,  Julia  Ward  Howe,  and  others. 

Hind,  Charles  Lewis.    Authors  and  I.    Lane,  1921. 

Pleasant  chats  spiced  with  personal  reminiscences  of  authors  famous  in 
the  nineties  and  later,  by  the  former  editor  of  the  Academy. 

Howells,  William  Dean.     My  literary  passions.     Harper,  1895. 

"To  give  an  account  of  one's  reading  is  in  some  sort  to  give  an  account 
of  one's  life,"  the  author  says,  and  in  these  pleasant  papers  Howells  describes 
the  books  he  read  in  childhood  and  in  later  years. 

Hudson,  William  Henry.    A  quiet  corner  in  a  library.    Rand,  1915. 

Leisurely,  appreciative  rather  than  critical,  essays  on  Tom  Hood,  Henry 
Carey,  George  Sills  and  Samuel  Richardson. 

Hunt,  Leigh.  Leigh  Hunt  as  poet  and  essayist;  being  passages 
from  his  works  selected  and  edited  with  biographical  intro- 
duction by  Charles  Kent.    Warne,  1891.    (Cavendish  library) . 

It  was  Leigh  Hunt's  special  gift  to  find  excellence  in  good  men  and  good 
books.  As  a  constructive  critic,  he  may  not  have  been  of  the  first  rank, 
but  as  an  understanding  appreciator,  a  finger-post  of  beauty  he  has  no  superior. 
— Lucas.     Lamb. 

Men,  women  and  books.    Scribner,  1908. 

A  critic  whose  subtlety  of  discrimination  and  whose  soundness  of  judg- 
ment, supported  as  it  was  on  a  broad  base  of  truly  liberal  scholarship,  have 
hardly  yet  won  fitting  appreciation. — Lowell.     Prose  works. 

Wit  and  htunor.     Scribner,  1890. 

Next  to  the  pleasure  he  took  in  books  was  that  he  derived  from  teaching 
others  to  take  pleasure  in  them.  Witness  his  Wit  and  humor  and  his 
Imagination  and  fancy,  to  my  mind  the  greatest  treasures  in  the  way  of 
handbooks  that  have  ever  been  offered  to  students  of  English  literature 
and  the  completest  antidotes  to  pretence  in  it. — Payn.     Some  private  views. 


46  VIEWPOINTS  IN  ESSAYS 

Hutton,  Lawrence.    Talks  in  a  library.    Putnam,  1905. 

Personal  and  literary  recollections  including  reminiscences  and  anecdotes 
of  Edwin  Booth,  Henry  Irving,  Joseph  Jeflferson,  vSt.  Gaudens,  Du  Maurier, 
Mark  Twain,  Dickens  and  many  other  well  known  people. — Best  Books,  J905. 

James,   Henry.     Notes   on   novelists,   with   some  other   notes. 
Scribner,  1914. 

Keen  insight  and  delicate  phrasing  characterize  these  remarkable  critical 
essays,  rich  in  knowledge  of  books  and  men,  which  reveal  Henry  James 
himself  as  much  as  Stevenson,  Zola,  Flaubert,  Balzac,  George  Sand, 
d'Annunzio,  Matilde  Seraor,  the  younger  Dumas. 

Johnson,  Lionel  Pigot.     Reviews  and  critical  papers,  ed.  with 
an  introduction  by  Robert  Shafer.     Button,  1921. 

Supplements  an  earlier  collection  published  in  1912.  Brilliant  reviews  of 
new  books  by  an  Englishman  whose  "learned  good  sense  was  informed  by 
prolonged  contact  with  the  greatest  and  best  in  classical  and  modem  litera- 
ture." 

Lang,  Andrew.     Adventures  among  books.     Longmans,    1905. 

RambHng  talks  about  Stevenson,  Mrs.  Radcliffe,  St.  Augustine  and  other 
writers  who  have  interested  Lang. 

"One  good  thing,  if  no  more,  these  memories  may  accomplish.  Young 
men,  especially  in  America,  write  to  me  and  ask  me  to  recommend  'a  course 
of  reading'.  Distrust  a  course  of  reading.  People  who  really  care  for 
books  read  all  of  them.  There  is  no  other  course.  Let  this  be  a  reply.  No 
other  answer  shall  they  get  from  me,  these  inquiring  young  men." 

Letters  to  dead  authors.    Scribner,  1893.     (Cameo  ed.) 

One  of  the  minor  masterpieces  of  literature,  the  keenest  and  cleverest 
volume  of  playful  criticism  since  the  Fahle  jor  critics. — Brander  Matthews. 


Lowell,  James  Russell.    Among  my  books.    Houghton,  1899.    2  v. 

How  much  of  the  allurement  of  the  essay  style  did  Lowell  keep,  however 
scholar-like  his  quest,  in  papers  literary,  historical,  even  philosophical!  In 
a  veritable  essay-subject  like  On  a  certain  condescension  in  foreigners, 
he  displays  himself  as  of  the  right  line  of  descent  from  Montaigne;  there  is 
in  him  all  that  unforced  winsome,  intimate,  yet  ever  restrained  revelation 
of  self  which  is  the  essayist's  model  and  despair. — Burton.  Forces  in  fiction 
and  other  essays. 

Lynd,  Robert.    The  art  of  letters.    Scribner,  1921. 

It  may  be  because  Mr.  Lynd  is  an  Irishman,  and  a  "good  Irishman"  to 
boot,  that  his  writing  has  the  charm  of  an  easy  and  urbane  conversationalist. 
He  allows  his  mind  to  adventure  among  the  masterpieces  of  English  literature 
from  Pepys  and  Bunyan  to  the  Georgian  poets  of  to-day.  He  has  the  faculty 
for  catching  the  reader's  interest  by  his  first  sentence  and  bringing  him  into 
a  subject  which  the  impatient  might  be  tempted  to  pass. — The  Literary  Review, 
1 92 1. 


VIEWPOINTS  IN  ESSAYS  47 

Lynd,  Robert.     Old  and  new  masters.    Scribner,  1919. 

Studies  written  with  humor  and  ranging  in  subject  from  Pope  and  Jane 
Austen  to  Chesterton  and  Shaw. 


Macaulay,  Thomas  Babington.  Critical  and  historical  essays, 
contributed  to  the  Edinburgh  Review.  Houghton,  1900.  3  v. 
(Cambridge  ed.) 

His  essays  are  as  good  as  a  library.  They  make  an  incomparable  manual 
and  vade  mecum  for  a  busy,  uneducated  man  who  has  curiosity  and  enlighten- 
ment enough  to  wish  to  know  a  little  about  the  great  lives  and  great  thoughts, 
the  shining  words  and  many-colored  complexities  of  action  that  have  marked 
the  journey  of  man  through  the  ages.  Whatever  his  special  subject,  he  con- 
trives to  pour  into  it  with  singular  dexterity  a  stream  of  rich,  graphic  and 
telling  illustrations  from  widely  diversified  sources. — Morley.  Fortnightly 
Review,  i8^6. 


Mais,  Stuart  Petre  Brodie.    Books  and  their  writers.    Dodd,  1920. 

Popular  essays  on  many  contemporary  and  some  older  English  writers, 
among  them  Compton  Mackenzie,  Norman  Douglas,  Stephen  McKenna, 
Clemence  Dane,  Dorothy  Richardson,  J.  C.  Squire,  Siegfried  Sassoon  and 
Robert  Nichols. 


Massingham,  J.  H.    Letters  to  X.    Button,  1920. 

Essay  letters,  ranging  widely  over  books  and  literature  in  general;  reflective, 
marked  by  sincerity  and  high  critical  ability. 


Meynell,  Mrs.  Alice.     Hearts  of  controversy.     Scribner,   1917. 

A  critical  consideration  of  Dickens,  the  Brontes,  Tennyson  and  Swinburne 
with  two  essays  on  literary  tendencies. 

Her  aim  is  to  chide,  to  rectify,  to  re-establish;  her  mind  is  athletic,  her 
eye  steady;  her  style  deliberate  and  secure.  The  main  virtue  of  Mrs. 
Meynell's  criticism  lies  in  the  fact  that  it  is  a  criticism  of  character. — New 
Statesman,  IQIQ. 


More,  Paul  Elmer.   Shelbume  essaj^s.    Putnam,  1904-1921.    11  v. 

Serious  careful  criticisms  of  literature,  ranging  over  a  wide  field  and  marked 
by  thorough  scholarship  and  careful  analysis,  v.  8  has  the  title:  Gift  of 
romanticism;  v.  9  Aristocracy  and  justice;  v.  10  With  the  wits;  v.  11  A  New 
England  group,  and  others. 


Morley,  John.    Studies  in  literature.    Macmillan,  1891. 

Like  his  Critical  miscellanies,  keen  comments  on  French  and  English 
writers. 


48  VIEWPOINTS  IN  ESSAYS 

Myers,  Frederic  William  Henry.    Essays — classical.    Macmillan, 

1888. 

Papers  on  Vergil,  Greek  oracles  and  Marcus  Aurelius,  marked  by  effective 
construction  and  an  exceptional  power  of  imparting  his  interest  to  the  reader. 
Essays — modern  (1883)  is  devoted  to  Mazzini,  George  Sand,  Victor  Hugo, 
Ernest  Renan,  Archbishop  Trench,  and  Arthur  Penrhyn  Stanley. 

Pater,  "Walter.     Appreciations;  with  an   essay   on  style.     Mac- 
millan. 1889. 

Marvellously  written  essays,  rich  in  vivid  words  and  musical  phrases, 
dealing  sympathetically  with  Coleridge,  Sir  Thomas  Browne,  Shakespeare, 
Rossetti  and  Feuillet. 

Essays  from  the  Guardian.    Macmillan,  1901. 

Nine  critical  reviews,  written  in  magical  prose,  of  books  as  varied  as  AmieVs 
Journal  and  Wordsworth's  poems. 

Perry,  Bliss.    Park-street  papers.    Houghton,  1908. 

Graceful,  genial  contributions  to  the  Atlantic  Monthly  during  ten  years 
of  editorship,  including  four  New  Year  prologues  and  appreciations  of  Haw- 
thorne, Longfellow,  Aldrich,  Whittier  and  F.  H.  Underwood. — Best  Books,  igo8. 

Phelps,  William  Lyon.  Essays  on  modem  dramatists.  Macmillan, 
1921. 

Readable  papers  on  Barrie,  Shaw,  Galsworthy,  Clyde  Fitch,  Maeterlinck, 
and  Rostand.  The  chapter  on  Clyde  Fitch  is  a  vivid  picture  of  an  unusual 
personality,  based  on  personal  acquaintance. 

Essays  on  modem  novelists.     Macmillan,  1910. 


Engaging  criticisms  and  characterizations  of  the  subject  matter  and 
philosophy  of  life  of  De  Morgan,  Hardy,  Howells,  Bjomson,  Ward,  Kipling, 
and  Lorna  Doom. — Best  Books,  igio. 

Quiller-Couch,  Sir  Arthur  Thomas.   Studies  in  literature.  Putnam, 
1918. 

Vivacious  papers  on  English  literature  from  the  time  of  the  ballads  to 
Swinburne. 

"You  will  scarcely  deny  that  to  some  of  you  Tennyson  is  'the  sort  of 
stuff  your  uncle  read.'  Well,  bethink  you  that  the  children  of  yet 
another  generation  will  deal  so  and  not  otherwise  with  your  heroes;  it 
is  all  a  part  of  the  continuous  process  of  criticism  through  which  our 
roseate  raptures  and  our  lurid  antipathies  pass,  if  not  into  the  light  of  common 
day,  into  that  of  serene  judgment.  Blame  not  your  uncle  that  at  the  age 
of  fourteen,  in  the  walled  garden  screened  from  the  windows  of  the  house, 
he  charged  among  the  vegetables  chanting 

'A  bow-shot  from  her  bower  eaves 
He  rode  between  the  barley-sheaves.' 
For  to  dream  of  these  things  and  to  wake  and  find  oneself  an  uncle — that  is 
the  common  lot." 


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Repplier,  Agnes.    Essays  in  miniature.    Houghton,  1895. 

Short,  diverting  comments  on  such  subjects  as.  Conversation  in  novels, 
A  short  defence  of  villains.  Children  in  fiction,  Three  famous  old  maids  and 
other  literary  topics. 

A  happy  half-century,  and  other  essays.     Houghton, 


1908. 

Reflections  spiced  with  smiHng  malice,  on  the  pious,  ornate  and  sentimental 
products  of  the  half-century  1775-1825. — Best  Books,  1908. 

Points  of  view.     Houghton,  1891. 


Beginning  with  a  plea  for  humor  Miss  Repplier  comments  on  books  that 
have  hindered  her,  literary  shibboleths,  and  other  topics  with  the  gaiety 
and  honesty  she  commends  to  others. 

Ruskin,  John.     Sesame  and  HHes,  with  introduction  by  C.  E. 
Norton.     Longmans,  1891.     (Brantwood  ed.) 

Three  lectures:  the  first.  Of  kings'  treasuries,  shows  the  value  and  use  of 
books;  the  second,  Of  queens'  gardens,  discusses  the  education  of  women 
and  their  place  in  society;  the  third.  The  mystery  of  life  and  its  arts,  gives 
principles  on  which  Ruskin's  theory  of  life  is  based. 

Sherman,  Stuart  Pratt.    On  contemporary  Hterature.    Holt,  1917, 

Stimulating  and  original  criticism  of  the  naturalism  which  the  author 
thinks  characteristic  of  Wells,  Dreiser  and  George  Moore,  and  of  Anatole 
France's  skepticism,  Synge's  exoticism,  Bennett's  realism,  Henry  James' 
idealism,  George  Meredith's  humanism,  Mark  Twain's  democracy,  Alfred 
Austin's  toryism  and  Shakespeare's  universality. 

Squire,  John  Ceilings.     Life  and  letters.     Doran,  1921. 

Sparkling  comments  by  a  clever  observer,  on  writers  new  and  old,  on 
split  infinitives  and  short  cuts  to  Helicon. 

Stephen,  Leslie.    Hours  in  a  library.    Putnam,  1905.    4  v. 

Just  and  kindly  criticism  of  English  writers,  from  Horace  Walpole  to 
Coleridge. 

Studies  of  a  biographer.     Putnam,    1898-1902.     4  v. 

Delightful  comments  on  famous  Englishmen,  by-products  of  Stephen's 
work  as  editor  of  the  Dictionary  of  National  Biography. 

Stevenson,  Robert  Louis.     Familiar  studies  of  men  and  books. 
Scribner,  1902. 

Men  whom  I  loved;  or  when  I  did  not  love  the  men,  my  love  was  greater 
to  their  books. — Preface. 

Contains  chapters  on  Hugo,  Burns,  Whitman,  Thoreau,  Villon,  Pepys, 
Yoshida-  Toraj  iro . 


50  VIEWPOINTS  IN  ESSAYS 

Thackeray,  William  Makepeace.  English  humorists  of  the 
eighteenth  century,  with  illustrations  by  the  author  and 
John  Leeds  and  Harry  Furniss.     Macmillan,  1911. 

Vivid  and  sympathetic  sketches  of  Swift,  Addison,  Hogarth,  Sterne, 
Goldsmith  and  their  contemporaries,  saturated  with  the  eighteenth  century 
spirit. 

Thoindike,  Ashley  Horace.  Changing  hterature  in  Victorian 
England.     Macmillan,  1920. 

Shows  how  various  movements  in  science,  industry,  democracy,  etc.,  have 
affected  hterature,  especially  in  the  Victorian  period.  The  chapter  on 
Carlyle  is  noteworthy. — Open  Shelf,  iq2I. 

Torrey,  Bradford.    Friends  on  the  shelf.    Houghton,  1906. 

Gracefully  written  essays  on  Hazlitt,  Fitzgerald,  Thoreau,  Stevenson, 
and  Anatole  France. 

Trent,  William  Peterfield.  Authority  of  criticism,  and  other 
essays.     Scribner,  1899. 

Scholarly  discussion  of  the  science  of  criticism  and  an  application  of  its 
principles  to  the  work  of  Shelley,  Horace,  Byron,  Tennyson  and  W.  D. 
Howells. 

Warner,  Charles  Dudley.  Relation  of  literature  to  life.  Harper, 
1897. 

Reflections  on  the  worth  of  literature  in  life,  showing  that  all  enduring 
literature  is  the  outcome  of  the  time  that  produces  it. 

Waugh,  Arthur.  Tradition  and  change;  studies  in  contemporary 
literature.     Button,  1919. 

Discerning  and  tolerant  papers  on  literary  subjects,  written  with  due 
respect  for  the  heritage  of  the  past  and  sympathy  for  the  demands  of  the  pre- 
sent. 

Wilson,  Woodrow.    Mere  literature,  and  other  essays.    Houghton, 

1896. 

The  first  essay  is  a  spirited  plea  for  the  consideration  of  literature  as  an 
art,  and  the  other  papers  deal  with  the  author  himself,  an  author's  choice 
of  company,  Bagehot,  Burke,  and  several  great  Americans. 

Woodberry,  George  Edward.  Great  writers:  Cervantes,  Scott, 
Milton,    Virgil,  Montaigne,  Shakespeare.     Macmillan,  1907. 

Scholarly,  critical  essays.  The  Torch  (1905)  traces  the  development  of 
the  race-mind  by  means  of  the  literature  of  different  ages. 

Studies  of  a  litterateur.     Harcourt,  1921. 


Pleasant  papers  on  English  and  American  writers;  Pepys,  Rossetti,  Lowell, 
Shelley,  Rupert  Brooke  and  others. 


VIEWPOINTS  IN  ESSAYS  51 

Yeats,  William  Butler.   The  cutting  of  an  agate.    Macmillan,  1912. 

I  have  been  busy  with  a  single  art,  that  of  the  theatre,  of  a  small  unpopular 
theatre;  and  this  art  may  well  seem  to  practical  men,  busy  with  some  program 
of  industrial  or  political  regeneration,  of  no  more  account  than  the  shaping 
of  an  agate;  and  yet  in  the  shaping  of  an  agate,  whether  in  the  cutting  or 
the  making  of  the  design,  one  discovers,  if  one  has  a  speculative  mind, 
thoughts  that  seem  important  and  principles  that  may  be  appUed  to  life 
itself,  and  certainly  if  one  does  not  believe  so,  one  is  but  a  poor  cutter  of 
so  hard  a  stone. — Preface. 

With  the  exception  of  the  essay  on  Spenser  the  papers  are  concerned  with 
the  literar>^  renaissance  in  Ireland. 

Essays,  Irish  and  American.     Macmillan,  1918. 

Friendly,  discursive  essays,  with  personal  sketches  of  Samuel  Butler  and 
Synge,  vivid  glimpses  of  the  Irish  home  where  the  art  of  conversation  flourishes 
and  a  comment  on  Watts'  method  of  art. 


POETRY 

For  what  is  it  to  hate  poetry?  It  is  to  have  no  little  dreams 
and  fancies,  no  holy  memories  of  golden  days,  to  be  unmoved 
by  serene  mid-stmimer  evenings  or  dawn  over  wild  lands,  sing- 
ing or  sunshine,  little  tales  told  by  the  fire  a  long  while  since, 
glow-worms  and  briar-rose;  for  of  all  these  and  more  is  poetry 
made.  It  is  to  be  cut  off  forever  from  the  fellowship  of  great 
men  that  are  gone;  to  see  men  and  women  without  their  haloes 
and  the  world  without  its  glory;  to  miss  the  meaning  lurking 
behind  common  things,  like  elves  hiding  in  flowers;  it  is  to  beat 
one's  hands  all  day  against  the  gates  of  Fairyland,  and  to  find 
that  they  are  shut  and  the  country  empty  and  its  kings  gone 
hence. — Dunsany.     Nowadays. 

Aiken,   Conrad.     Scepticisms,   notes   on   contemporary   poetry. 
Knopf,  1919. 

Discriminating  comments  on  English  and  American  poets  and  poetry, 
preceded  by  an  essay  on  the  difficulties  of  impartial  criticism.  The  title 
comes  from  the  author's  uncertainty  about  the  "resultant  crops"  of  the 
new  poetry. 

De  La  Mare,  Walter  John.    Rupert  Brooke  and  the  intellectual 
imagination.     Harcourt,  1920. 

One  poet's  sympathetic  analysis  of  the  work  of  another,  written  in  exquisite 
prose. 

Drinkwater,  John.     Prose  papers.     Mathews,  1917. 

In  the  first  four  essays  the  author  discusses  poetry  as  the  finest  instrument 
of  education  and  the  most  effective  guide  to  conduct.  The  other  essays  are 
concerned  with  Sidney,  Gray,  Coleridge,  the  Brontes,  Watts-Dunton,  Rupert 
Brooke  and  other  poets. 


S2  VIEWPOINTS  IN  ESSAYS 

Dunsany,  Edward    John   Moreton   Drax   Plunkett,  isth  baron. 
Nowadays.     Four  seas  company,  1918.     (Seven  arts  series). 

A  brief  essay  addressed  to  all  who  work  for  the  joy  of  creating  and  are 
thus  akin  to  poets. 

"For  what  is  it  to  be  a  poet?  It  is  to  see  beauty  in  all  its  forms  and  mani- 
festations, to  feel  ugliness  like  a  pain,  to  resent  the  wrongs  of  others  as  bitterly 
as  one's  own,  to  know  nature  as  botanists  know  a  flower,  to  be  thought  a 
fool,  to  hear  at  moments  the  clear  voice  of  God." 

Eastman,  Max.     Enjoyment  of  poetry.     Scribner,  1913. 

Appreciative,  discriminating  essays  on  poetry  and  the  poetic,  "leading  to 
a  fresh  identification  of  course  and  meaning  of  our  poetic  moods,  to  a  new 
perception  of  their  spontaneous  expression  in  daily  talk  and  of  the  relation- 
ship of  both  these  things  to  the  writing  and  reading  of  poetry. ' ' — Best  Books,  1913 . 

Erskine,  John.    The  kinds  of  poetry  and  other  essays.    Duffield, 
1920. 

Four  essays  in  which  a  teacher,  himself  a  lover  of  poetry,  shows  how  the 
study  of  poetry  may  be  made  an  open  door  into  the  house  of  wonder. 

Heam,  Lafcadio.     Appreciations  of  poetry;  selected  and  edited 
by  John  Erskine.     Dodd,  1916. 

Illuminating  studies  of  Tennyson,  Rossetti,  Swinburne,  Browning,  and 
William  Morris,  selected  from  lectures  given  at  Tokyo  and  preserved  in  the 
notebooks  of  Japanese  students.  The  critic  has  a  rare  knowledge  of  human 
nature  and  approaches  books  from  the  creative  point  of  view. 

Lowell,  Amy.     Six  French  poets;  studies  in  contemporary  htera- 
ture.     Macmillan,  1915. 

Shows  that  the  key  to  the  French  spirit  is  found  in  the  devotion  of  the 
French  people  to  the  arts,  and  discusses  characteristic  writers  of  a  great 
poetical  epoch:  Emile  Verhaeren,  Albert  Samain,  RemydeGourmont,  Henri 
de  Rcgnier,  Francis  Jammes  and  Paul  Fort. 

Tendencies  in  modem  poetry.     Macmillan,  1917. 

Interesting  critical  interpretation  of  the  new  movement  in  poetry,  using 
six  contemporary  poets  as  examples — Edwin  Arlington  Robinson,  Robert 
Frost,  Edgar  Lee  Masters,  Carl  Sandburg,  Mrs.  Hilda  DooUttle  Aldington 
(H.  D.)  and  John  Gould  Fletcher.  Miss  Lowell,  a  poet  herself  and  a  personal 
friend  of  all  six  poets,  brings  sympathy  and  understanding  to  her  work. — Best 
Books,  1917. 

Lowell,  James  Russell.     The  function  of  the  poet  and  other 
essays,  collected  and  edited  by  Albert  M.  Houghton,  1920. 

The  spirit  of  this  lecture  is  so  fine,  its  tone  so  full  of  the  enthusiasm  of 
youth,  its  conception  of  the  poet  so  lofty  and  the  truths  it  contains  so  im- 
portant, that  it  may  well  be  prized  as  the  expression  of  a  genius,  which  if 
not  yet  mature,  is  always  powerful,  and  aquiline  in  sweep  of  wing. — C.  E. 
Norton. 


VIEWPOINTS  IN  ESSAYS  S3 

Lowes,   John   Livingston.      Convention   and   revolt   in   poetry. 
Houghton,  1919. 

"Carlyle  once  said  of  Tennyson,  'Alfred  is  always  carrying  a  bit  of  chaos 
around  with  him,  and  turning  it  into  cosmos.'  Well,  that  is  poetry's  job, 
and  it  is  amazingly  like  the  enterprise  of  life.  And  one  reason  why  poetry 
is  worthy  of  the  consideration  of  men  and  women  breathing  thoughtful 
breath,  in  this  return  to  chaos,  is  the  fact  that  poetry's  essence  is  also,  in 
a  sense  that  is  profoundly  true,  the  goal  of  life — it  is  creative  energy  made 
effective  through  restraint." 

Noguchi,  Yone.     The  spirit  of  Japanese  poetry.     Button,  1914. 
(Wisdom  of  the  East  series). 

A  Japanese  poet's  comment  on  the  austere  brevity  of  the  best  Japanese 
poetry  in  contrast  to  the  fluency  of  English  poets.  He  names  selection, 
simplification  and  concentration  as  qualities  essential  to  literary  art. 

Palmer,  George  Herbert.     Formative  types  in  English  poetry. 
Houghton,  1918. 

Critical  essays  on  seven  poets:  Chaucer,  Spenser,  Herbert,  Pope,  Words- 
worth, Tennyson,  Browning,  who  have  influenced  the  technique  of  English 
poetry  and  reflected  the  spirit  of  their  times.  The  introductory  essay 
analyzes  the  principles  of  the  poetic  art. 

Perry,  Bliss.    Study  of  poetry.    Houghton,  1920. 

Aims  "to  set  forth  in  decent  prose  some  of  the  strange  potencies  of  sense; 
its  power,  for  instance,  to  seize  upon  a  physical  image  like  that  of  a  woman 
planting  bulbs  in  Katharine  Tynan's  poem,  and  transmute  it  into  a  symbol 
of  the  resurrection  of  the  dead;  its  capacity  for  turning  fact  into  truth  and 
brown  earth  into  beauty;  for  remoulding  the  broken  syllables  of  human 
speech  into  sheer  music." 

Santayana,    George.      Interpretations    of   poetry   and   religion. 
Scribner,  1900. 

His  idea  is  that  religion  and  poetry  are  identical  in  essence  and  differ  merely 
in  the  way  in  which  they  are  attached  to  practical  affairs.  Poetry  is  called 
religion  when  it  intervenes  in  life,  and  religion,  when  it  merely  supervenes 
upon  life,  is  seen  to  be  nothing  but  poetry. 

Shelley,  Percy  Bysshe.    Defense  of  poetry;  ed.  by  A.  S.  Cook. 
Ginn. 

Shelley  in  his  beautiful  essay,  itself  a  poem,  wrote  of  poetry  as  a  way  of 
apprehending  all  phases  of  life. — Erskine.     Kinds  of  poetry, 

Sidney,   Sir  Philip.     An   apologie  for    poetrie;    ed.   by   J.    C. 
Collins.     Oxford,  1907. 

The  stormie  winter  (deere  chyldren  of  the  Muses)  which  hath  so  long 
held  backe  the  glorious  sunshine  of  diuine  poesie  is  heere  by  the  sacred  pen- 
breathing  words  of  diuine  Sir  Philip  Sidney  not  onely  chased  from  our  fame- 
inviting  Clyme,  but  vtterly  foreuer  banisht  etemitie. — Henry  Olney,  Apologie 
for  poesie,  1595. 


54  VIEWPOINTS  IN  ESSAYS 

Thompson,  Francis.     Shelley.     Burns  &  Oates,  1909. 

Beautifully  written  comment  on  Shelley,  emphasizing  his  spontaneity 
and  the  child-like  quality  of  his  imagination. 

"Know  you  what  it  is  to  be  a  child?  It  is  to  be  something  very  different 
from  the  man  of  to-day.  It  is  to  have  a  spirit  yet  streaming  from  the  waters 
of  baptism;  it  is  to  believe  in  love,  to  believe  in  loveliness,  to  believe  in  belief, 
it  is  to  be  so  little  the  elves  can  reach  to  whisper  in  your  ears;  it  is  to  turn 
pumpkins  into  coaches,  and  mice  into  horses,  and  nothing  into  everything, 
for  each  child  has  its  fairy  god-mother  in  its  own  soul;  it  is  to  live  in  a  nut- 
shell and  count  yourself  the  king  of  infinite  space." 

Watts-Dunton,  Theodore.    Poetry  and  The  renascence  of  wonder. 
Button,  1916. 

Two  essays,  from  the  Encyclopedia  Britannica  and  the  Cyclopedia  of 
English  Literature,  reprinted  with  additions,  showing  the  nature  and  forms 
of  poetry  and  the  revival  of  romantic  temper  in  English  poetry  at  the  end 
of  the  eighteenth  century. 


COLLECTIONS  OF  ESSAYS 

Of  all  literary  forms  the  personal  essay  appears  the  most  art- 
less, a  little  boat  that  sails  us  into  pleasant  havens,  without  any 
chart  or  compass.  To  read  is  as  if  we  overheard  some  one  chat- 
ting with  that  little  merry-heart,  his  own  particular  Ego. 
The  self-annalist  whose  essays  warm  our  hearts  with  friendship 
must  be  one  who  sips  the  wine  of  mirth  when  all  alone  with  his 
own  Self.  Not  many  such  are  born  and  fewer  of  them  write  essays. 
The  essay  is  no  easy  thing.  The  true  mood  and  the  true  manner  of 
it  are  rare.  It  is  as  difficult  to  write  an  essay  on  purpose  as  it  is 
to  be  a  person  on  purpose,  a  teasing  game  and  unsatisfactory. 
— Kirkland.     Joys  of  being  a  woman. 

Atlantic  classics.    Atlantic  monthly  press,  1916-1918.  2  v. 

Two  collections  each  containing  sixteen  essays  on  varied  subjects  by  well- 
known  authors  who  write  with  distinction  of  thought  and  style.  Reprinted 
from  the  Atlantic. 

An  excellent  and  much  needed  antidote  for  the  gospel  of  punch. — Spring- 
field Republican. 

Berdan,  John  Milton,  ed.     Modem  essays,  selected  and  edited 
by  John  Milton  Berdan   [and  others].      Macmillan,    1915. 

Thirty-three  notable  modern  essays,  selected  by  members  of  the  English 
faculty  at  Yale  to  illustrate  principles  of  exposition. 

Brewer,  David  Josiah,  ed.     The  world's  best  essays  from  the 
earliest  period  to  the  present  time.     Kaiser,   1908.     10  v. 

Comprehensive  selection  including  well-known  examples  of  the  work  of 
famous  essayists. 


VIEWPOINTS  IN  ESSAYS  55 

Bronson,  Walter  Cochrane,  ed.  American  prose  (1607-1865). 
University  of  Chicago,  1916. 

Essays,  tales  and  orations  from  thirty-eight  writers  beginning  with  John 
Smith  and  ending  with  Lincoln.  Contains  textual  notes  and  criticisms  for 
use  as  a  text-book. 

English  essays.     Holt,  1906. 

Typical  selections  from  twenty-nine  English  writers,  illustrating  the 
development  of  the  essay  from  Bacon  and  Milton  to  Stevenson. 

Bryan,  William  Frank,  ed.  The  EngHsh  familiar  essay,  ed.  by 
William  Frank  Bryan  and  Ronald  S.  Crane.    Ginn,  1916. 

Illustrates  the  development  of  the  essay  from  Montaigne  to  Stevenson 
by  means  of  eighty  essays  chosen  from  fifteen  writers. 

Cody,  Sherwin,  comp.  Selections  from  the  best  English  essays, 
illustrative  of  the  history  of  English  prose  style.  McClurg, 
1903. 

Characterizes  Bacon,  Swift,  Addison,  Lamb,  De  Quincey,  Carlyle,  Emerson, 
Macaulay,  Ruskin  and  Arnold  and  gives  examples  of  their  work. 

Matthews,  James  Brander,  ed.  The  Oxford  book  of  American 
essays.     Oxford  university  press,  1914. 

Intended  for  an  English  public,  the  thirty-two  essays  present  "our  sig- 
nificant traits,  the  diversity  and  breadth  of  our  interests,  rather  than  individ  ua 
performers."     Covers  the  period  from  FrankUn  and  Irving  to  Crothers 

Morley,  Christopher,  ed.    Modem  essays.     Harcourt,  1921. 

A  collection  of  essays  from  thirty  recent  writers,  with  an  introduction 
and  unconventional  biographical  notes  by  Christopher  Morley. 

Rhys,  Ernest  and  Vaughan,  Lloyd,  eds.     A  century  of  English 
essays.     Button,  n.  d.  (Everyman's  library). 
An  anthology  ranging  in  time  from  Caxton  to  Robert  Louis  Stevenson. 

Steeves,  Harrison  Ross  and  Ristine,    Frank  Humphrey,   eds. 

Representative  essays  in  modem  thought.     American  book 
company,  1913. 

Nineteen  serious  essays  chosen  for  college  study,  including  Mill's  Of  the 
hberty  of  thought  and  James'  Will  to  believe. 

Tanner,  William  Maddux,  ed.  Essays  and  essay-writing.  Atlantic 
monthly  press,  1918. 

Sixty-nine  diverting  examples  of  the  familiar  essay,  chosen  from  the 
Contributors'  club  of  the  Atlantic  Monthly. 


56  VIEWPOINTS  IN  ESSAYS 

Vaughan,  Charles  Edwin,  ed.    English  literary  criticism.  Scribner, 
1896.      (Warwick  library). 

Characteristic  essays  by  nine  English  writers,  from  Sir  Philip  Sidney  to 
Walter  Pater,  which  show  the  development  of  standards  of  criticism. 


HISTORY  AND  CRITICISM  OF  ESSAYS 

Davis,  William  Hawley.     English  essayists.     Badger,  1916. 
Sketches  and  comments  on  well-known  essayists. 

Walker,  Hugh.    The  English  essay  and  essayists.    Dutton,  1915. 
(Channels  of  English  literature). 

History  of  the  development  of  the  English  essay,  covering  the  years  from 
1597  to  1900. 


AUTHOR  INDEX 

Page 

Addison,  Joseph.     Sir  Roger  de  Coverley 18 

J&,  pseud.    5ee  Russell,  G.  W. 

Aiken,  Conrad.     Skepticisms , 51 

Aldricb,  T.  B.     Ponkapog  papers 7 

Alpha  of  the  Plough,  pseud.    See  Gardiner,  A.  G . 

Arnold,  Matthew.     Essays  in  criticism 41 

Arts  and  crafts  exhibition  society,  London.     Arts  and  crafts  essays 34 

Aydelotte,  Frank.     The  Oxford  stamp 32 

Ayscough,  John.     Levia  pondera 7 

Babbitt,  Irving.     The  new  Laokoon 34 

Bacon,  Francis.     Essays 7 

Bagehot,  Walter.     Literary  studies 41 

Bailey,  L.  H.    Holy  earth 22 

Baker,  R.  S.     The  friendly  road 26 

Great  possessions 22 

Beerbohm,  Max.     And  even  now 14 

Beers,  H.  A.     The  Connecticut  wits 41 

Beith,  J.  H.     The  lighter  side  of  school  life 32 

Belloc,  Hilaire.     First  and  last 7 

HLUs  and  the  sea 26 

On  anything 7 

On  everything 7 

On  nothing 7 

This  and  tnat  and  the  other 7 

Bennett,  Arnold.     How  to  live  on  twenty-four  hours  a  day 38 

Our  women 16 

Things  that  have  interested  me 7 

Benson,  A.  C.     From  a  college  window 11 

The  leaves  of  the  tree 18 

The  silent  isle 7 

Berdan,  J.  M.,  ed.     Modern  essays 54 

Bergengren,  Ralph.     The  comforts  of  home 13 

The  perfect  gentleman 15 

The  seven  ages  of  man 19 

Birrell,  Augustine.     Obiter  dicta 41 

In  the  name  of  the  Bodleian 41 

Boas,  R.  P.,  ed.     Youth  and  the  new  world 20 

Bourne,  R.  S.     History  of  a  literary  radical 14 

Youth  and  life 20 

Boyd,  E.  A.     Appreciations  and  depreciations 42 

Bradford,  Gamaliel.     A  naturalist  of  souls 42 

Brewer,  D.  J.,  ed.     The  world's  best  essays 54 

Bridges,  H.  J.     On  becoming  an  American 30 

Bronson,  W.  C,  ed.     American  prose 55 

English  essavs 55 

Brooks,  C.  S.     Cnimney  pot  papers 7 

Hints  to  pilgrims 8 

Journeys  to  Bagdad 27 

There's  pippins  and  cheese  to  come 13 

Broun,  H.  C.     Seeing  things  at  night 8 

Brown,  Alice.     By  oak  and  thorn 28 

Brown,  John.     Spare  hours 18 

Browne,  Sir  Thomas.     Religio  medici 12 

Bryan,  W.  F.,  ed.     The  EngUsh  familiar  essay 55 

Burroughs,  John.     Accepting  the  universe 37 

Leaf  and  tendril 22 

Signs  and  seasons 22 

Under  the  maples 22 

Wake-robin 24 

Butler,  Samuel.     The  humour  of  Homer 8 

Cable,  G.  W.     The  amateur  garden 25 

Cabot,  R.  C.     What  men  live  by 38 

Canby,  H.  8.     College  sons  and  college  fathers 32 

Everyday  Americans 30 

Carlyle,  Thomas.     On  heroes,  hero  worship  and  the  heroic  in  history 18 

Sartor  resartus 37 

Carrick,  A.  Van.  L.     Collector's  luck 20 

Castle,  Mrs.  A.  8.     Our  sentimental  garden 25 

Chapman,  J.  J.     Memories  and  milestones 18 

Chapman,  R.  W.     Portrait  of  a  scholar 42 

Chesterton,  G.  K.     Alarms  and  discursions 8 

Heretics 42 

Orthodoxy 42 

The  uses  of  diversity 8 

57 


58  AUTHOR  INDEX 

Page 

Chesterton,  G.  K.    Varied  types 42 

Victorian  age  in  literature 42 

Cody,  Sherwin,  comp.     Selections  from  the  best  English  essays 55 

Cohen,  Alfred.     When  a  man  commutes 16 

Colby,  F.  M.     Constrained  attitudes 39 

Coleridge,  S.  T.     Biographia  literaria 42 

Essays  and  lectures  on  Shakespeare 42 

Colvin,  Sir  Sidney.     Faces  and  places 18 

Conrad,  Joseph.     Notes  on  life  and  letters 8 

Conway,  Sir  Martin.     Mountain  Memories 21 

Cook,  Sir  E.  T.     Literary  recreations 43 

More  literary  recreations 43 

Cortissoz,  Royal.     Art  and  common  sense 34 

Coiu-tney,  W.  L.     Old  saws  and  modern  instances 43 

Cox,  Kenyon.     Artist  and  public 34 

The  classic  point  of  view 34 

Cram,  R.  A.     Gold,  frankincense  and  myrrh 37 

Ministry  of  art 34 

Crothers,  S.  M.     Among  friends 13 

The  dame  school  of  experience 32 

The  gentle  reader 40 

Humanly  speaking 28 

The  pardoner's  wallet 8 

Cumberland,  Gerald,  pseud.    See  Kenyon,  C.  F. 

Curie,  J.  H.     This  world  of  ours 28 

Davis,  W.  H.     English  essayists 56 

Dawson,  W.  J.     The  book  of  courage 38 

De  La  Mare,  W.  J.     Rupert  Brooke  and  the  intellectual  imagination 51 

De  Quincey,  Thomas.     English  mail-coach 8 

Dewey,  John.     The  school  and  society 32 

Dobson,  Austin.     Eighteenth  century  vignettes 43 

Later  essays 18 

Old  Kensington  palace 43 

Drinkwater,  John.     Prose  papers 51 

Duclaux,  A.  M.  F.  R.     Twentieth  century  writers 43 

Dunn,  Mrs.  M.  B 33 

Dunsany,  E.J.  M.  D.  P.,  15th  baron.    Nowadays 62 

Eagle,  Solomon,  pseud.     See  Squire,  J.  C. 

Earle,  A.  M.     Old  time  gardens 25 

Earle,  M.  T.     Potpourri  from  a  Surrey  garden 25 

Eastman,  Max.     Enjoyment  of  poetry 52 

Journalism  versus  art 39 

Eaton,  W.  P.     Green  trails  and  upland  pastures 23 

Eliot,  C.  W.     American  contributions  to  civilization 31 

Eliot,  T.  S.     The  sacred  wood 39 

Emerson,  R.  W.     Essays 38 

Erskine,  John.     The  kinds  of  poetry  and  other  essays 52 

The  moral  obligation  to  be  intelligent 38 

Fabre,  J.  H.  C.     Life  and  love  of  the  insect 23 

Fitch,  G.  H.     Comfort  found  in  good  old  books 43 

Flandrau,  C.  M.     Prejudices 8 

Flint,  M.  B.     Garden  of  simples 26 

Follett,  H.  T.     Some  modern  novelists 43 

Freeman,  John.     The  moderns 43 

Galsworthy,  John.     Inn  of  tranquillity 12 

Gardiner,  A.  G.     Pebbles  on  the  shore 13 

Windfalls 8 

Garnett,  Richard.     Essays  of  an  ex-librarian 44 

Gass,  S.  B.     A  lover  of  the  chair 12 

Gayley,  C.  M.     Idols  of  education 33 

George,  W.  L.     The  intelligence  of  women 16 

Literary  chapters 44 

Gerould,  Mrs.  K.  F.     Modes  and  morals 14 

Gilman,  Lawrence.     Nature  in  music 36 

Gissing,  George.     Private  papers  of  Henry  Ryccroft 12 

Goldring,  Douglas.     Reputations 44 

Gosse,  E.  W.     Books  on  the  table 44 

Portraits  and  sketches 18 

Some  diversions  of  a  man  of  letters 44 

Three  French  moralists 44 

Grahame,  Kenneth.     Pagan  papers 27 

Grant,  Robert.     Convictions  of  a  grandfather 20 

Grayson,  David,  pseud.     See  Baker,  R.  S. 

Grey,  Edward,  viscount.     Recreation 21 

Guedalla,  Philip.     Supers  and  supermen 14 

Harrison,  Frederic.     Choice  of  books 40 

Hay,  Ian,  pseud.     See  Beith,  John  H. 

Hazlitt,  William.     Lectures  on  the  English  comic  writers 44 

Lectures  on  the  English  poets 44 


AUTHOR  INDEX  59 

Page 

Hazlitt,  William.    Table  talk 9 

Hearn,  Lafcadio.     Appreciations  of  poetry 52 

Exotics  and  retrospectives 28 

Glimpses  of  unfamiliar  Japan 28 

Interpretations  of  literature 45 

Life  and  literature 45 

Henderson,  C.  H.     Education  and  the  larger  life 33 

Hendrick,  EUwood.     Percolator  papers 15 

Hewlett,  M.  H.     In  a  green  shade 9 

Higginson,  T.  W.     Carlyle's  laugh 45 

Hind,  C.  L.     Art  and  1 34 

Authors  and  I 45 

Hine,  R.  L.     The  cream  of  curiosity 21 

Holliday,  R.  C.     Broome  Street  straws 13 

Men  and  books  and  cities 31 

Turns  about  town 18 

Walking  stick  papers 16 

HoweUs,  W.  D.     Familiar  Spanish  travels 29 

My  literary  passions 45 

Hudson,  W.  H.     A  quiet  corner  in  a  library 45 

A  traveler  in  Uttle  things 29 

Adventures  among  birds 24 

Humphrey,  Zephine.     The  edge  of  the  woods 9 

Huneker,  James.     Bedouins 15 

Ivory,  apes  and  peacocks 15 

Overtones 36 

Promenades  of  an  impressionist 35 

Variations 9 

Hunt,  Leigh.     Leigh  Hunt  as  poet  and  essayist 45 

Men,  women  and  books 45 

The  wishing  cap  papers 9 

Wit  and  humor 45 

Hutton,  Laurence.     Talks  in  a  library 46 

Huxley,  T.  H.     Lay  sermons 38 

Science  and  education 33 

Hyatt,  A.  H. ,  comp.     A  book  of  gardens 26 

Irving,  Washington.     The  Alhambra 28 

Sketch  Book 28 

Jackson,  Holbrook.     All  manner  of  folk 19 

Southward  ho! 27 

James,  Henry.     Notes  on  novelists 45 

James,  William.     Talks  to  teachers  on  psycholog^y 33 

James,  W.  P.     The  lure  of  the  map 29 

Jefferies,  Richard.     Field  and  hedgerow 29 

The  open  air 23 

The  story  of  my  heart 23 

Jenkins,  MacGregor.     Literature  with  a  large  L 9 

The  reading  pubUc 40 

Johnson,  L.  P.   Re-vaews  and  critical  papers 46 

Jordan,  D.  S.     The  voice  of  the  scholar 33 

Keller,  Helen.     Optimism 39 

Kenyon,  C.  F.     Set  down  in  malice 19 

Kerfoot,  J.  B.     How  to  read 40 

Kilmer,  Joyce.     The  circus 9 

Kirkland,  Winifred.     The  joys  of  being  a  woman 16 

The  view  vertical 9 

Lamb,  Charles.     Essays  of  Elia 9 

Lang,  Andrew.     Adventures  among  books 46 

Letters  to  dead  authors 46 

Larned,  J.  N.     Books,  culture  and  character 40 

Lee,  G.  S.     The  lost  art  of  reading 40 

Lee,  Vernon,  pseud.    See  Paget,  Violet. 

Leith,  W.  C.     Apologia  diffidentis 12 

Domus  doloris 12 

Sirenica lO 

Littell,  Philip.     Books  and  things 15 

Locker-Lampson,  G.  T.     Thoughts  in  middle  life 20 

Lowell,  Amy.     Six  French  poets 52 

Tendencies  in  modern  poetry 52 

Lowell,  J.  R.     Among  my  books 46 

Democracy 31 

The  function  of  the  poet 52 

Lowes,  J.  L.     Convention  and  revolt  in  poetry 53 

Lucas,  E.  V.     Adventures  and  enthusiasms 9 

Cloud  and  silver 9 

Fireside  and  sunshine 13 

Twixt  eagle  and  dove 9 

Lynd,  Robert.     The  art  of  letters 46 

Old  and  new  masters 47 


60  AUTHOR  INDEX 

Page 

McArthur,  Peter.     The  red  cow  and  her  friends 17 

Macaulay,  T.  B.     Critical  and  historical  essays 47 

McDowall,  Arthur.     Realism 35 

McFee,  William.     Harbours  of  memory 29 

Mackenzie,  W.  R.     The  quest  of  the  ballad 21 

Macleod,  Fiona,  pseud.     See  Sharp,  William 

Maeterlinck,  Maurice.     The  treasure  of  the  humble 12 

Wisdom  and  destiny 12 

Mais,  S.  P.  B.     Books  and  their  writers 47 

Marks,  Jeannette.     Gallant  little  Wales 29 

Mason,  D.  G.     Contemporary  composers 36 

Massingham,  H.  J.     Letters  to  X 47 

Masson,  T.  L.     Well,  why  not? 10 

Mather,  F.  J.     Estimates  in  art 35 

Matthews,  J.  B.     The  American  of  the  future 31 

Essays  on  English 39 

,  ed.     Oxford  book  of  American  essays 55 

Maynard,  Theodore.     Carven  from  the  laurel  tree 12 

Mencken,  H.  L.     Prejudices 15 

Meynell,  Mrs.  A.  C.  T.     Hearts  of  controversy 47 

Miller,  Mrs.  H.  M.     Bird  ways 24 

MUler,  O.  T.     See  Miller,  Mrs.  H.  M. 

Milne,  A.  A.     Not  that  it  matters 10 

If  I  may 14 

Money-Coutts,  F.  B.     Ventures  in  thought 10 

Montaigne,  M.  E.  de.     Essays 10 

Moore,  F.  F.     A  garden  of  peace 26 

More,  P.  E.     Shelburne  essays 47 

Morley,  Christopher.     Mince  pie 14 

ed.     Modern  essays 55 

Pipefuls 16 

Plum  pudding 16 

Travels  in  Philadelphia 29 

Morley,  John.     Studies  in  literature 47 

Morris,  Mrs.  E.  W.     Jonathan  papers 23 

Morris,  William.     Hopes  and  fears  for  art 35 

Murray,  J.  M.     The  evolution  of  an  intellectual 20 

Myers,  F.  W.  H.     Essays — classical 48 

Essays — modern 48 

Newman,  Ernest.     A  musical  motley 36 

Newman,  J.  H.,  cardinal.    The  idea  of  a  university 33 

Newton,  A.  E.     The  amenities  of  book  collecting 21 

A  magnificent  farce 21 

Nicholson,  Meredith.     The  man  in  the  street 31 

The  provincial  Amercian 31 

Noguchi,  Yone.     The  spirit  of  Japanese  poetry 63 

North,  Christopher,  pseud.     See  Wilson,  John. 

Overton,  G.  M.     Why  authors  go  wrong 39 

Paget,  Violet.     The  enchanted  woods 23 

Euphorion 12 

Hortus  vitae 16 

The  tower  of  the  mirrors 29 

Paine,  H.  E.     Old  people 20 

Palmer,  G.  H.     Formative  types  in  English  poetry 53 

The  teacher 33 

Park,  J.  E.     The  bad  results  of  good  habits 39 

Pater,  Walter.     Appreciations 48 

Essays  from  the  Guardian 48 

Miscellaneous  studies 19 

Pearson,  F.  B.     Reveries  of  a  schoolmaster 33 

Perry,  Bliss.     The  amateur  spirit 21 

The  American  mind 31 

Park-street  papers 48 

Study  of  poetry 53 

Phelps,  W.  L.     Essays  on  modern  dramatists 48 

Essays  on  modern  novelists 48 

Phillips,  Duncan.     The  enchantment  of  art 35 

Quiller-Couch,  Sir  A.  T.     On  the  art  of  reading 41 

On  the  art  of  writing 39 

Studies  in  literature 48 

Raymond,  E.  T.     All  and  sundry 19 

Uncensored  celebrities 19 

Repplier,  Agnes.     Amercians  and  others 31 

Compromises 10 

Countercurrents 31 

Essays  in  miniature 49 

A  happy  half -century 49 

Points  of  friction 11 

Points  of  view 49 

Varia 16 


AUTHOR  INDEX  61 

Page 

Rhvs,  Ernest,  ed.     A  century  of  English  essays 55 

Rolland,  Remain.     Musicians  of  to-day 36 

Roosevelt,  Kermit.     The  happy  hunting  grounds 21 

Roosevelt,  Theodore.     American  ideals 31 

Rosenfeld,  Paul.     Musical  portraits 36 

Ruskin,  John.     Modern  painters 35 

Sesame  and  lilies 49 

Russell,  G.  W.     The  candle  of  vision 38 

Russell,  G.  W.  E.     Prime  ministers 19 

Santayana,  George.     Character  and  opinion  in  the  United  States 32 

Interpretations  of  poetry  and  religion 53 

Scarborough,  Dorothy.     From  a  southern  porch 30 

Schaufl3er,  R.  H.     The  joyful  heart 21 

The  musical  amateur 36 

Scott,  Temple.     The  silver  age 20 

Scoville,  Samuel,"  jr.     Everyday  adventures 22 

Sedgwick,  H.  D.     The  new  American  type 32 

Sharp,  D.  L.     Beyond  the  pasture  bars 23 

The  face  of  the  fields 23 

The  hills  of  Hingham 17 

Patrons  of  democracy 33 

Sharp,  William.     Where  the  forest  murmurs 24 

Shelly,  P.  B.     Defense  of  poetry. 53 

Sherman,  S.  P.     On  contemporary  literature 49 

Sherwood,  Margaret.     Familiar  ways 17 

Shorter,  Mrs.  D.  S.     A  dull  day  in  London 11 

Sidgwick,  A.  H.     Walking  essays 27 

Sidney,  Sir  Philip.    An  apologie  for  poetrie 63 

Sill,  E.  R.     Prose 11 

Sloane,  J.  M.     The  smiling  hill-top 17 

Smith,  Alexander.     Dreamthorp 11 

Smith,  C.  A.     What  can  literature  do  for  me? 41 

Smith,  L.  P.     Trivia 11 

Sonneck,  O.  G.  T.     Suum  cuique 37 

Squire,  J.  C.     Books  in  general 14 

Life  and  letters 49 

Steeves,  H.  R.,  ed.     Representative  essays  in  modern  thought 55 

Stephen,  Leslie.     Hours  in  a  library 49 

Studies  of  a  biographer 49 

Stevenson,  R.  L.     Across  the  plains 38 

FamiUar  studies  of  men  and  books 49 

Memories  and  portraits 19 

Virginibus  puerisque 27 

Stewart,  C.  D.     Essays  on  the  spot 11 

Strachey,  Lytton.     Eminent  Victorians 19 

Strunsky,  Simeon.     Belshazzar  court 17 

Sturgis,  Mrs.  E.  M.  O.     Personal  prejudices 11 

Random  reflections  of  a  grandmother 20 

Surette,  T.  W.     Music  and  life 37 

Symonds,  J.  A.     In  the  key  of  blue 11 

Symonds,  Arthur.     Cities  and  sea-coasts  and  islands 30 

Tabor,  Grace.     Old-fashioned  gardening 26 

Tanner,  W.  M.,  ed.     Essays  and  essay-writing 55 

Thackeray,  W.  M.     English  humorists 50 

Thaxter,  Celia.     An  island  garden 26 

Thompson,  Francis.     Shelley 54 

Thoreau,  H.  D.     Excursions 27 

Walden 24 

Thorndike,  A.  T.     Changing  literature  in  Victorian  England 50 

Tolstoi,  L.  N.,  graf.     What  is  art? 35 

Tomlinson,  H.  M.     London  River 30 

Old  junk 30 

Torrey,  Bradford.     Clerk  of  the  woods 24 

Field  days  in  California 24 

Footing  it  in  Franconia 27 

Friends  on  the  shelf 50 

Nature's  invitation 22 

Trent,  W.  P.     Authority  of  criticism 50 

Van  Dyke,  Henry.     Fisherman's  luck 22 

Little  Rivers 30 

Van  Dyke,  Henry,  and  others.     Counsel  upon  the  reading  of  books 40 

Van  Dyke,  J.  C.     What  is  art? 35 

Van  Vechten,  Carl.     Music  and  bad  manners 36 

Vaughan,  C.  E.,  ed.     English  literary  criticism 56 

Walker,  Hugh.     The  English  essay  and  essayists 56 

Walton,  Izaak.     The  compleat  angler 22 

Warner,  C.  D.     My  summer  in  a  garden 26 

Relation  of  literature  to  life 50 

Warner,  F.  L.     Endicott  and  1 17 


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Warner,  F.  L.  and  Warner,  Gertrude.     Life's  minor  collisions 17 

Watts-Dunton  Theodore.     Poetry 54 

Waugh,  Arthur.     Tradition  and  change 50 

Whistler,  J.  M.     The  gentle  art  of  making  enemies 35 

Wilson,  John.     Noctes  ambrosianae 11 

Wilson,  Woodrow.     Mere  literature 50 

When  a  man  comes  to  himself 39 

Wood,  S.  T.     Rambles  of  a  Canadian  naturalist 24 

Woodberry,  G.  E.     Great  writers 50 

Studies  of  a  litterateur 50 

Woodbridge,  Elizabeth.    See  Morris,  Mrs.  E.  W. 

Woodbury,  0.  H.     Painting  and  the  personal  equation 36 

Yeats,  W.  B.     The  cutting  of  an  agate 51 

Essays,  Irish  and  American 51 

Yeomans,  Edward.     Shackled  youth 34 


TITLE  INDEX 

Page 

Accepting  the  universe.     Burroughs 37 

Across  the  plains.     Stevenson 38 

Adventures  among  birds.     Hudson 24 

Adventures  among  books.     Lang 46 

Adventures  and  enthusiasms.     Lucas 10 

Alarms  and  discursions.     Chesterton 8 

The  Alhambra.     Irving 28 

All  and  sundry.     Raymond 19 

All  manner  of  folk.     Jackson 19 

The  amateur  garden.     Cable 25 

The  amateur  spirit.     Perry 21 

The  amenities  of  book  collecting.     Newton 21 

American  contributions  to  civilization.     Eliot 31 

American  ideals.     Roosevelt 31 

The  American  mind.     Perry 31 

The  American  of  the  future.     Matthew.s 31 

American  prose.     Bronson,  ed 55 

Americans  and  others.     Repplier 31 

Among  friends.     Crothers 13 

Among  my  books.     Lowell 46 

And  even  now.     Beerbohm 14 

Apologia  diffidentis.     Leith 12 

An  apologie  for  poetrie.     Sidney 53 

Appreciations.     Pater 48 

Appreciations  and  depreciations.     Boyd 42 

Appreciations  of  poetry.     Hearn 52 

Art  and  common  sense.     Cortissoz 34 

Art  and  I.     Hind 34 

The  art  of  letters.     Lynd 46 

Artist  and  public.     Cox 34 

Arts  and  crafts  essays.     Arts  and  crafts  exhibition  society,  London 34 

Atlantic  classics . •' 54 

Authority  of  criticism.     Trent 50 

Authors  and  I.     Hind 45 

The  bad  results  of  good  habits.     Park 39 

Bedouins.     Huneker 15 

Belshazzar  court.     Strunsky 17 

Beyond  the  pasture  bars.     Sharp 23 

Biographia  literaria.     Coleridge 42 

Bird  ways.     Miller 24 

The  book  of  courage.     Dawson 38 

A  book  of  gardens.     Hyatt,  comp 26 

Books  and  their  writers.     Mais 47 

Books  and  things.     Littell 15 

Books,  culture  and  character.     Lamed 40 

Books  in  general.     Squire 14 

Books  on  the  table.     Gosse 44 

Broome  Street  straws.     Holliday 13 

By  oak  and  thorn.     Brown 28 

The  candle  of  vision.     Russell 38 

Carlyle's  laugh.     Higginson 45 

Carven  from  the  laurel  tree.     Maynard 12 

A  century  of  English  essays.     Rhys,  ed 55 

Changing  literature  in  Victorian  England.     Thorndike 50 

Character  and  opinion  in  the  United  States.     Santayana 32 

Chimney  pot  papers.     Brooks 7 

Choice  of  books.     Harrison 40 

Cicero  in  Maine.     Dunn 33 

The  circus.     Kilmer 9 

Cities  and  sea-coasts  and  islands.     Symons 30 

The  classic  point  of  view.     Cox 34 

Clerk  of  the  woods.     Torrey 24 

Cloud  and  sUver.     Lucas 10 

Collector's  luck.     Carrick 20 

College  sons  and  college  fathers.     Canby 32 

Comfort  found  in  good  old  books.     Fitch 43 

The  comforts  of  home.     Bcrgengren 13 

The  compleat  angler.     Walton 22 

Compromises.     Repplier 10 

The  Connecticut  wits.     Beers 41 

Constrained  attitudes.     Colby 39 

Contemporary  composers.     Mason 36 

Counsel  upon  the  reading  of  books.     Van  Dyke  and  others 40 

Convention  and  revolt  in  poetry.     Lowes 63 

The  convictions  of  a  grandfather.     Grant 20 

63 


64  TITLE  INDEX 

Page 

Counter  currents.     Repplier 31 

The  cream  of  curiosity.     Hine 21 

Critical  and  historical  essays.     Macaulay 47 

The  cutting  of  an  agate.     Yeats 51 

The  dame  school  of  experience.     Crothers 32 

Defense  of  poetry.    Shelley 53 

Democracy.     Lowell 31 

Domus  doloris.     Leith 12 

Dreamthorp.     Smith 11 

A  dull  day  in  London.     Shorter 11 

The  edge  of  the  woods.     Humphrey 9 

Education  and  the  larger  life.     Henderson 33 

Eighteenth  century  vignettes.     Dobson 43 

Eminent  Victorians.     Strachey 19 

The  enchanted  fl^oo^s.    Paget 23 

The  enchantment  of  art.    Phillips 35 

Endicott  and  I.     Warner 17 

The  English  essay  and  essayists.     Walker 56 

English  essayists.     Davis 56 

EngUsh  essays.     Bronson,  ed 55 

The  English  familiar  essay.     Bryan,  ed 55 

English  humorists.     Thackeray 60 

English  literary  criticism.     Vaughan,  ed 56 

English  mail-coach.     DeQuincey 8 

Enjoyment  of  poetry.     Eastman 52 

Essays.    Bacon 7 

Essays.    Emerson 38 

Essays.     Montaigne 10 

Essays  and  essay-writing.     Tanner,  ed.  .  .  . 55 

Essays  and  lectures  on  Shakespeare.     Coleridge 42 

Essays — classical.     Myers 48 

Essays  from  the  Guardian.     Pater 48 

Essays  in  criticism.    Arnold 41 

Essays  in  miniature.     Repplier 49 

Essays,  Irbh  and  American.     Yeats 51 

Essays — modern.     Myers 48 

Essays  of  an  ex-librarian.     Garnett 44 

Essays  of  Elia.     Lamb 9 

Essays  on  English.     Matthews 39 

Essays  on  modern  dramatists.     Phelps 48 

Essays  on  modern  novelists.     Phelps 48 

Essays  on  the  spot.     Stewart 11 

Estimates  in  art.     Mather 35 

Euphorion.    Paget 12 

Everyday  adventures.     Scoville 22 

Everyday  Americans.     Canby 30 

The  evolution  of  an  intellectual.     Murry 20 

Excursions.     Thoreau 27 

Exotics  and  retrospectives.     Hearn 28 

The  face  of  the  fields.     Sharp 23 

Faces  and  places.     Colvin 18 

Familiar  Spanish  travels.     Howells 29 

Familiar  studies  of  men  and  books.     Stevenson 49 

Familiar  ways.     Sherwood 17 

Field  and  hedgerow.     Jeflferies 29 

Field  days  in  California.     Torrey 24 

Fireside  and  sunshine.     Lucas 13 

First  and  last.     Belloc 7 

Fisherman's  luck.     Van  Dyke 22 

Footing  it  in  Franconia.     Torrey 27 

Formative  types  in  English  poetry.     Palmer 53 

The  friendly  road.     Baker 26 

Friends  on  the  shelf.     Torrey 50 

From  a  college  window.     Benson 11 

From  a  southern  porch.     Scarborough 30 

The  function  of  the  poet.     Lowell 52 

Gallant  little  Wales.     Marks 29 

A  garden  of  peace.     Moore 26 

Garden  of  simples.     Flint 25 

The  gentle  art  of  making  enemies.     Whistler 35 

The  gentle  reader.     Crothers 40 

Glimpses  of  unfamiliar  Japan.     Hearn 28 

Gold,  frankincense  and  myrrh.     Cram 37 

Great  possessions.     Baker 22 

Great  writers.     Woodberry 60 

Green  trails  and  upland  pastures.     Eaton 23 

A  happy  half-century.     Repplier 49 

The  nappy  hunting  grounds.     Roosevelt 21 

Harbours  of  memory.     McFee 29 

Hearts  of  controversy.     Meynell 47 


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Heretics.     Chesterton 42 

Hills  and  the  sea.     Belloc 26 

The  hills  of  Hingham.     Sharp 17 

Hints  to  pilgrims.     Brooks 8 

History  of  a  literary  radical.     Bourne 14 

Holy  earth.     Bailey 22 

Hopes  and  fears  for  art.     Morris 35 

Hortus  vitae.     Paget 16 

Hours  in  a  library.     Stephen 49 

How  to  live  on  twenty-four  hours  a  day.     Bennett 38 

How  to  read.     Kerfoot "  40 

Humanly  speaking.     Crothers 28 

The  humour  of  Homer.     Butler 8 

The  idea  of  a  university.     Newman 33 

Idols  of  education.     Gayley 33 

If  I  may.     Milne 14 

In  a  green  shade.     Hewlett 9 

In  the  key  of  blue.     Symonds 11 

In  the  name  of  the  Bodleian.     Birrell 41 

The  inn  of  tranquillity.     Galsworthy 12 

The  intelligence  of  women.     George 16 

Interpretations  of  literature.    Hearn 45 

Interpretations  of  poetry  and  religion.     Santayana 53 

An  island  garden.     Thaxter 26 

Ivory,  apes  and  peacocks.     Huneker 15 

Jonathan  papers.     Morris 23 

Joiu-nalism  versus  art.     Eastman 39 

Journeys  to  Bagdad.     Brooks 27 

The  joyful  heart.     Schaufiier 21 

The  joys  of  being  a  woman.     Kirkland 16 

The  kinds  of  poetry.     Erskine 52 

Later  essays.     Dobson 18 

Lay  sermons.     Huxley 38 

Leaf  and  tendril.     Burroughs 22 

The  leaves  of  the  tree.     Benson 18 

Lectures  on  the  English  comic  writers.     Hazlitt 44 

Lectures  on  the  English  poets.     Hazlitt 44 

Leigh  Hunt  as  poet  and  essayist.     Hunt 45 

Letters  to  dead  authors.     Lang 46 

Letters  to  X.     Massingham 47 

Levia  pondera.     Ayscough 7 

Life  and  letters.     Squire 49 

Life  and  literature.     Hearn 45 

Life  and  love  of  the  insect.     Fabre 23 

Life's  minor  collisions.     Warner 17 

The  lighter  side  of  school  life.     Beith 32 

Literary  chapters.     George 44 

Literary  recreations.     Cook 43 

Literary  studies.     Bagehot 41 

Literature  with  a  large  L.     Jenkins 9 

Little  rivers.     Van  Dyke 30 

London  River.     Tomlinson 30 

The  lost  art  of  reading.     Lee 40 

A  lover  of  the  chair.     Gass 12 

The  lure  of  the  map.     James • 29 

A  magnificent  farce.     Newton 21 

The  man  in  the  street.     Nicholson 31 

Memories  and  milestones.     Chapman 18 

Memories  and  portraits.     Stevenson 19 

Men  and  books  and  cities.     Holliday 31 

Men,  women  and  books.     Hunt 45 

Mere  literature.     Wilson 50 

Mince  pie.     Morley 14 

The  ministry  of  art.     Cram 34 

Miscellaneous  studies.     Pater 19 

Modern  essays.     Morley,  ed 55 

Modern  essays.     Berdan,  ed 54 

Modern  painters.     Ruskin 35 

The  moderns.     Freeman 43 

Modes  and  morals.     Gerould 14 

The  moral  obligation  to  be  intelligent.     Erskine 38 

More  literary  recreations.     Cook 43 

Mountain  memories.     Conway 21 

Music  and  bad  manners.     Van  Veehten 37 

Music  and  life.     Surette 37 

The  musical  amateur.     Schauffler 37 

A  musical  motley.     Newman 36 

Musical  portraits.     Rosenfeld 36 

Musicians  of  today.     RoUand 36 


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My  literary  passions.     Howells 45 

My  summer  in  a  garden.     Warner 26 

A  naturalist  of  souls.     Bradford 42 

Nature  in  music.     Oilman 36 

Nature's  invitation.     Torrey 22 

The  new  American  type.     Sedgwick 32 

The  new  Laokoon.     Babbitt 34 

Noctes  anibrosianae.     Wilson 11 

Not  that  it  matters.     Milne 10 

Notes  on  life  and  letters.     Conrad 8 

Notes  on  novelists.     James 46 

Nowadays.     Dunsany 52 

Obiter  dicta.     Birrell 41 

Old  and  new  masters.     Lynd 47 

Old-fashioned  gardening.     Tabor 26 

Old  j  unk.     Tomhnson 30 

Old  Kensington  palace.     Dobson 43 

Old  people.     Paine 20 

Old  saws  and  modern  instances.     Courtney 32 

Old  time  gardens.     Earle 25 

On  anything.     Belloc 7 

On  becoming  an  American.     Bridges 30 

On  contemporary  literature.     Sherman 49 

On  everything.     Belloc 7 

On  heroes,  hero  worship  and  the  heroic  in  history.     Carlyle 18 

On  nothing.     Belloc 7 

On  the  art  of  reading.     Quiller-Couch 41 

On  the  art  of  writing.     Quilier-Couch 29 

The  open  air.     Jefferies 33 

Optimism.     Keller 39 

Orthodoxy.    Chesterton 42 

Our  sentimental  garden.     Castle 25 

Our  women.     Bennett 16 

Overtones.     Huneker 36 

The  Oxford  book  of  American  essays.     Matthews,  ed 55 

The  Oxford  stamp.     Aydelotte 32 

Pagan  papers.     Grahame 27 

Painting  and  the  personal  equation.     Woodbury 36 

The  pardoner's  wallet.     Crothers 8 

Park-street  papers.     Perry 48 

Patrons  of  democracy.     Sharp 33 

Pebbles  on  the  shore.     Gardiner 13 

Percolator  papers.     Hendrick 15 

The  perfect  gentleman.     Bergengren 15 

Personal  prej  udices.     Sturgis 11 

Pipefuls.     Morley 16 

Plum  pudding  .     Morley 16 

Poetry  and  the  renascence  of  wonder.     Watts-Dunton 54 

Points  of  friction.      Repplier 11 

Points  of  view.     Repplier 49 

Ponkapog  papers.     Aldrich 7 

Portrait  of  a  scholar.     Chapman 42 

Portraits  and  sketches.     Gosse 18 

Potpourri  from  a  Surrey  garden.     Earle 25 

Prejudices.     Flandrau 8 

Prejudices.     Mencken 15 

Prime  ministers  and  some  others.     Russell 19 

Private  papers  of  Henry  Ryeeroft.     Gissing 12 

Promenades  of  an  impressionist.     Huneker 35 

Prose.     Sill 11 

Prose  papers.     Drinkwater 51 

The  provincial  American.     Nicholson 31 

The  quest  of  the  ballad.     Mackenzie 21 

A  quiet  corner  in  a  library.     Hudson 45 

Rambles  of  a  Canadian  naturalist.     Wood 24 

Random  reflections  of  a  grandmother.     Sturgis 20 

The  reading  public.     Jenkins 40 

Realism.     McDowall 35 

Recreation.     Grey 21 

The  red  cow  and  her  friends.     McArthur 17 

Relation  of  literature  to  life.     Warner 50 

Rcligio  niedici.     Browne 12 

Representative  essays  in  modern  thought.     Steeves,  ed 55 

Reputations.     Goldring 44 

Reveries  of  a  schoolmaster.     Pearson 33 

Reviews  and  critical  papers.     Johnson 46 

Rupert  Brooke  and  the  intellectual  imagination.     De  La  Mare 51 

The  sacred  wood.     Eliot 39 

Sartor  resartus.     Carlyle 37 

Scepticisms.     Aiken 51 

The  school  and  society.     Dewey 32 


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Science  and  education.     Huxley 33 

Seeing  things  at  night.     Broun 8 

Selections  from  the  best  English  essays.     Cody,  comp 55 

Sesame  and  lilies.     Ruskin 49 

Set  down  in  malice.     Kenyon 19 

The  seven  ages  of  man.     Bergengren 19 

Shackled  youth.     Ycomans 34 

Shelburne  essays.     More 47 

Shelley.     Thompson 54 

Signs  and  seasons.     Burroughs 22 

The  silent  isle.     Benson 7 

The  silver  age.     Scott 20 

Sir  Roger  de  Coverley.     Addison 18 

Sirenica.     Leith 10 

Six  French  poets.     Lowell 52 

Sketch-book.     Irving 28 

The  smiling  hill-top.     Sloane 17 

Some  diversions  of  a  man  of  letters.     Gosse 44 

Some  modern  novelists.     Follett 43 

Southward  ho!     Jackson 27 

Spare  hours.     Brown 18 

The  spirit  of  Japanese  poetry.     Noguchi 53 

The  story  of  my  heart.     JefTcries 23 

Studies  in  literature.     Morley 47 

Studies  in  literature.     Quiller-Couch 48 

Studies  of  a  biographer.     Stephen 49 

Studies  of  a  litterateur.     Woodberry 50 

Study  of  poetry.     Perry 53 

Supers  and  supermen.     Guedalla 14 

Suum  cuique.     Sonncck 37 

Table  talk.     Hazlitt 9 

Talks  in  a  library.     Hutton 46 

Talks  to  teachers  on  psychology.     James 33 

The  teacher.     Palmer 33 

Tendencies  in  modern  poetry.     Lowell 52 

There's  pippins  and  cheese  to  come.     Brooks 13 

Things  that  have  interested  me.     Bennett 7 

This  and  that  and  the  other.     Bclioe 7 

This  world  of  ours.     Cm-le 28 

Thoughts  in  middle  life.     Locker-Lampson 20 

Three  French  moralists.     Gosse 44 

The  tower  of  the  mirrors.     Paget 29 

Tradition  and  change.     Wa'.igh 50 

A  traveler  in  little  things.     Hudson 29 

Travels  in  Philadelphia.     Morley 29 

The  treasure  of  the  humble.     Maeterlinck 12 

Trivia.     Smith .  . .  11 

Turns  about  town.     HoUiday !.!!!!!  18 

Twentieth  century  WTiters.     Duclaux 43 

Twixt  eagle  and  dove.     Lucas 10 

Uncensored  celebrities.     Raymond '. 19 

Under  the  maples.     Burroughs .[[  22 

The  uses  of  diversity.     Chesterton 8 

Varia.     Repplier 16 

Variations.     Huneker 9 

Varied  types.     Chesterton ' .' ."  42 

Ventures  in  thought.     Money-Coutts !.!!!!!!.  10 

Victorian  age  in  literature.     Chesterton 42 

The  view  vertical.     Kirkland 9 

Virginibus  puerisque.     Stevenson !!!!!!!.'!  27 

The  voice  of  the  scholar.     Jordan !.!'.!!!!!!!'.!  33 

Wake-robin.     Burroughs !.!!!!!!!!!!!!!  24 

Walden.     Thoreau ,  _  24 

Walking  essays.     Sidgwick 27 

Walking  stick  papers.     Holliday 16 

Well,  why  not?     Masson ..........'....'.  10 

What  can  literature  do  for  me?     Smith     41 

What  is  art?     Tolstoi '.'.'.'.'.'.'.'.'.'.'.'.'.'.'.'.[['.'.'.'.'.'.['.'.'.  35 

What  is  art?     Van  Dyke _  _  35 

What  men  live  by.     Cabot 38 

When  a  man  comes  to  himself.     Wilson 39 

When  a  man  commutes.     Cohen ]  16 

Where  the  forest  murmurs.     Sharp 24 

Why  authors  go  wrong.     Overton 39 

Windfalls.     Gardiner 8 

Wisdom  and  destiny.     Maeterlinck ......................'.  12 

The  wishing  cap  papers.     Hunt 9 

Wit  and  humor.     Hunt 45 

The  world's  best  e.ssays.     Brewer,  ed .  .  .  54 

Youth  and  life.     Bourne 20 

Youth  and  the  new  world.     Boas,  ed 20 

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